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| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almenar (Municipality of Almenar) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 52 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress voucher on cream card stock with perforated edges. The issuer name "Ajuntament d'Almenar" is printed in bold uppercase letters at the top, underlined by a solid rule, followed by the denomination statement "VAL per 1 Pta." in the centre. Below, a serial number field marked "Núm." appears at lower left, with the municipality's alcalde signature in ink at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on cream-toned thick card stock with perforated edges, bearing no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Almenar is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like dozens of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had sanctioned local emergency issues, but coordination was loose — each ajuntament produced what it could, with whatever printing resources were at hand.
Turró catalogues this as #122, placing it within the broader Catalan municipal series. The thick card stock was a practical response to the short print runs and rough handling these notes endured in local commerce.