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20 Céntimos Pont de Suert

Issuer Consell Municipal de Pont de Suert
Year 1937
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Value 20 Centimos (0.20 ESP)
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Obverse description Plain green underprint with the large numeral '20' in black at centre, flanked by the text 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL' to the left and 'PONT DE SUERT' to the right in bold black letterpress. The denomination 'CENTIMS' appears beneath the central numeral, with the printer's imprint 'Impr. - Tremp' below, and solid black square blocks mark each of the four corners.
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Protection type Official stamp
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Pont de Suert is a small town in the Alta Ribagorça comarca of Lleida, deep in the Pyrenees. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's collapse of normal monetary supply forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities — including the most remote — to print their own emergency fractional currency. This note is one of those local necessities: produced at the Imprenta Tremp press in the nearby town of Tremp, which served as a regional printing hub for several such municipally-issued pieces across the comarca.

The sole security feature is an official stamp applied at point of issue — thin protection, but consistent with the improvised nature of the entire wartime municipalist currency system.

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