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0.50 Pesetas Albons
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Albons |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in red letterpress on a yellow diamond-pattern underprint filling the entire field. The issuer's name 'Consell Municipal d'Albons' is set in large arched red capitals across the upper portion, below which a red horizontal rule separates the denomination area. The value '0'50' appears twice — once as a large yellow underprint numeral and again in bold red letterpress — above the currency inscription 'PESSETES', with a serial number and ornamental asterisk at lower left; the border consists of a red scalloped frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0'50 PESSETES MUNICIPAL D'ALBONS El Conseller 1er: Jaume Hos L'Interventor: Josep Pagès (Translation: 0.50 / Municipal Pesetas / of Albons / The 1st Councillor: Jaume Hos / The Auditor: Josep Pagès) |
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Albons is a tiny municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency fractional issues produced across Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. When the Republic's central government failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation — copper and silver disappeared through hoarding and wartime disruption almost immediately after July 1936 — municipalities down to village level were authorized, then eventually required, to print their own substitute currency. Albons had a population of a few hundred.
Turró's catalog documents the issue, but surviving examples are genuinely rare by any standard. Small-run local paper rarely made it past the immediate postwar.