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0.50 Pesetas Nalec
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Nalech (Municipality of Nalech) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer's name appears in spaced capitals along the top, separated from the central denomination text by a dotted rule; the large-format value "0'50 PESSETES" dominates the centre below the legend "VAL PER". A circular violet municipality stamp is applied to the centre-right, and a serial number line with the abbreviation "Núm" is positioned at lower left, with the date "MAIG DEL 1937" at lower right, all enclosed within a decorative geometric border of repeating scroll motifs. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE NALECH VAL PER 0`50 PESSETES D`ÚS FORÇOS SOLAMENT A NALECH MAIG DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Nalech Voucher for 0.50 Pesetas Mandatory use only in Nalech May 1937) |
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Nalec is a tiny municipality in the comarca of L'Urgell, Catalonia — population in the hundreds even today. During the Spanish Civil War, the breakdown of conventional monetary supply forced hundreds of Catalan towns and villages to print their own emergency fractional currency, known collectively as guerra civil local issues. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipalities to do so from 1936 onward, partly to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination Republican coinage that had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after the war began.
Turró's catalog documents over two thousand such issues, and Nalec's single known type is among the more obscure entries — a printing run almost certainly numbered in the hundreds rather than thousands.