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0.50 Pesetas Les Borges Blanques
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Les Borges Blanques |
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| Obverse description | Typeset wartime emergency voucher printed by letterpress in violet-brown ink on cream card stock, framed within a plain single-line rectangular border. The issuing authority name is set in small capitals along the upper margin, with the denomination 'Val de 0`50 ptes.' in large bold type at centre, followed by a handwritten serial number with ornamental prefix. A guarantee clause in small capitals runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Les Borges Blanques Val de 0`50 ptes. GARANTIT PER LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Les Borges Blanques Voucher for 0.50 Pesetas Guaranteed by the Municipal Treasury) |
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Les Borges Blanques is the capital of Les Garrigues comarca in Lleida province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities it issued its own fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small change effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. These local emissions — collectibles known as "moneda de necessitat" — were authorised under a decree that briefly gave ayuntamientos the right to fill the vacuum left by hoarded coins.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice, not a shortcoming: thin paper would have disintegrated within weeks under the volume of hand-to-hand exchange in a small market town.