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| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Puigvert |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PUIGVERT VAL DE VINT-I-CINC CENTIMS circulació obligatòria dintre la població, garantit per l'Ajuntament. Puigvert, abril del 1937. El Caixer, (Translation: Municipal Council of Puigvert Voucher of Twenty-five Centimos mandatory circulation in the town, guaranteed by the City Council. Puigvert, April 1937. The Cashier,) |
| Reverse description | Reverse printed on plain cream card stock, entirely unprinted and blank. |
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Puigvert — a small agricultural municipality in the Lleida plain — issued this emergency fractional note during the Spanish Civil War under the Republic's framework allowing local councils to produce their own small-change currency (moneda local). The national coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1936, hoarded or melted, leaving municipalities scrambling to fill the gap with cardboard and goodwill.
Arts Gràfiques Ilerda was the dominant provincial printer for these Lleida-area emergency issues, producing notes for dozens of surrounding councils across 1937. Their output was competent but not elaborate — thick card stock rather than proper banknote paper, reflecting wartime supply constraints rather than design ambition.