50 Céntimos Solsona
Features
| Issuer |
Municipality of Solsona
(Province of Lleida)  |
|---|---|
| Period |
Second Republic (1936-1939)
|
| Type | Emergency banknotes |
| Year | 1937 |
| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | 100 × 58 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 435128 |
| References | Turró# 2390 Antoni Turró i Martínez; 2007. Les Emissions Monetàries oficials de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939): I: Andorra, Illes Balears i Catalunya (Generalitat i Locals) = The official Monetary Issues of the Civil War (1936-1939). Societat Catalana d'Estudis Numismàtics, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain. Andreu Garí Berges, Juan Montaner Amorós; 2016. Los billetes: Billetes municipales (guerra civil española) 1936-1939 = The banknotes (2nd Edition). Expo Galería. |
Obverse
Black lettering with central local coat of arms with rhomboid emblem in color of Catalonia on top, ears of wheat on the left and coal workers on the right, crafts typical of Solsona.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
Ajuntament de SOLSONA
50 CENTIMS
Creat i garantit per acord Municipal del 19. de Agost del 1937
Solsona, 1. Setbr. del 1937
Translation:
City Council of Solsona
50 Centimos
Created and guaranteed by Municipal agreement of August 19, 1937
Solsona, September 1, 1937
Reverse
Black lettering with, flanked by two ears of wheat, view of the entrance to the city from the road that goes to Manresa, highlighting the bell tower of the Cathedral.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
CINQUANTA CENTIMS
Aquest Bitllet es de circulació obligatoria per tota la comarca de Solsona i el seu reembossament será efectuat abans del 1er. de Setbr. del 1938.
Translation:
Fifty Centimos
This banknote is mandatory for circulation throughout the Solsona region and its reimbursement will not be made before September 1, 1938.
Printer
Imprenta Litografia Sabadell y Cia., Barcelona, SpainComments
Local Spanish Civil War banknotes: Created by municipalities, cooperatives, unions and other organizations due to the scarcity of fiduciary currency in small purchases and exchanges during the Spanish Civil War.
Municipality: Solsona - Province: Lleida - Autonomous community: Catalonia
NOTE: According to the Antoni Turró Catalogue, when the first issue of 19 000 copies of this banknote (Turró#2389, serial number from 00001 to 19 000, blue color) ran out, it was extended with the issue of 1000 more banknotes (Turró#2390, serial number from 19 001 to 20 000, pink color) theoretically the latter being of different colors (pink), but banknotes from this latest issue have been observed with the same color as the first (blue).
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| Date | No. printed | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1937-Sep-01 | 1 000 | Serie A | |||||||||||||
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