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0.50 Pesetas Campredó

Issuer Consell Municipal de Campredó
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Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Typeset letterpress design in red ink, enclosed within a plain rectangular border. The Catalan coat of arms appears in the upper left corner, with the issuing authority and certificate text arranged in multiple lines across the face. The note's austere, text-heavy layout is typical of Civil War-era municipal emergency currency.
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Reverse description Plain unprinted reverse on pale greenish-white paper stock, intended to receive the official municipal stamp as the sole means of validation.
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Campredó is a small village in the Baix Ebre comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other municipalities it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of metallic coin circulation in 1936–37. These local emergency notes — collectively catalogued under the broader Catalonian war scrip literature — were produced with whatever printing resources the local council could access, typically a job printer or even a typewriter and rubber stamp.

Survival rates vary wildly by municipality. Smaller villages printed in correspondingly small quantities, and notes that actually circulated through local commerce took hard wear in a short time.