Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in the east of Spain inhabited by 1,620,809 people nowadays. It belongs to the region Catalonia, in the center of it.

A bit about Barcelona

Barcelona is between the river deltas of the Llobregat and Besós rivers, it is the capital of Catalonia and the second most populated city in Spain.The first settlers go back to the Neolithic, being the first settlers highlighted the Laietans (Iberian people). After the First Punic War and according to a legend, the city was founded by Hamilcar Barca (father of Hannibal) in the year 230 a. C. Between 15 and 10 a. C. the Romans settled permanently in Barcelona (Barcino), counting in the second century with a population of between 4000 and 8000 inhabitants. The Visigoths converted it for a few years into the capital of the Hispanic territories, being conquered by Al-Hurr in the 8th century but returned to the Christian territory by Louis the Pious of the Carolingian Empire, incorporating it into the Marca Hispanica. Borrell II began the flourishing condal period, from where they left many troops and resources to the company to take new possessions for the Crown of Aragon, becoming one of the main Western Mediterranean in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The decline began in the fifteenth century, with tensions arising from the dynastic union with Castile and the Reapers' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, meant the disappearance of many institutions in Catalonia, as well as the prohibition of Catalan and the construction of the citadel's military fortress. The recovery began in the late eighteenth century and industrialization in the nineteenth century made Barcelona was at the head of the so-called Renaixença (Renaissance), having the textile trade monopoly between Spain and Cuba. In 1897 the construction of the Ensanche began by Ildefonso Cerdá. In the twentieth century the development of the Metro and the Port was promoted and, despite defending the Second Republic, the city was the focus of internal rebellions and fights between parties, such as the May Days of 1937. The Franco dictatorship designated Barcelona as development pole promoting an intense industrialization that led to a strong and prolonged immigration from the rest of the Peninsula. After the death of General Franco, the city benefited, like the rest of Spain, from a new economic impulse very influenced by the integration in the European Union and Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympic Games. Already in the 21st century, Barcelona was center of demonstrations in favor of the independence of Catalonia (and also against it) and in 2017 there was a jihadist attack.

War paper-money

The city of Barcelona coined banknotes of 10 céntimos, 15 céntimos, 50 céntimos, 1 peseta and 1.5 pesetas.

50 céntimos (cincuenta céntimos/cinquanta centims)

This banknotes worth 50 céntimos was first circulated in May the 13th 1937. On the main side left it can be seen Barcelona coat of arms (formed by St. George cross and senyera) and a boat sailing in the sea. In the right part of the banknote appears the written value of the banknote and the name of the entity which coined the banknote in Catalan (Ajuntament de Barcelona). There's also a text saying that the banknote is exchanged when it's given to the Local Bank (Caixa Municipal). The rest of the banknote is fulled with decortive elements.
On the other side of the banknote appears , the written value, the name of the coining entity and a text in Catalan saying that the banknote has to be exchanged before September the 1st 1938. Moreover there are two 50's and decorative elements. This banknote has no digital watermark. The size of this banknote is 9.3 cm x 5.6 cm.