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0.50 Pesetas El Palau d'Anglesola
| Issuer | Ajuntament de El Palau d'Anglesola |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE EL PALAU D'ANGLESOLA reconeix al portador la quantitat de 0'50 Pessetes De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal. (Translation: City Council of El Palau d'Anglesola recognizes the bearer the amount of 0.50 Pesetas. Mandatory legal tender throughout the entire municipality.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same pink card stock as the obverse, with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. Collector notation in pencil is visible at the upper right corner, and a faint circular stamp impression can be discerned near the centre. |
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El Palau d'Anglesola is a small municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, and this note belongs to the enormous wave of locally-issued emergency fractional currency — the so-called *moneda local* or *bitllets locals* — produced across Republican-held Catalonia from 1936 onward. The collapse of small coin in circulation after the July 1936 uprising forced thousands of municipalities, cooperatives, and collectives to print their own low-denomination scrip just to keep local commerce moving.
Turró's catalog documents over two thousand such issuers. El Palau d'Anglesola's entry at #1753 places it deep in that count — one small council among hundreds scrambling to solve the same problem with whatever printing resources were locally available.