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5 Céntimos Albagés
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Albagés (Municipality of L'Albagés) |
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| Size | 49 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain white card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALBAGÉS' appears in bold uppercase lettering at the top, separated from the denomination by a solid horizontal rule. The large numeral '5' and abbreviation 'cts.' are centered below, with a serial number and asterisk control mark printed in smaller type at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALBAGÉS 5 cts. (Translation: City Council of Albagés 5 Céntimos) |
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L'Albagés is a small municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia. This 5 céntimos note is one of the emergency fractional issues produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's failure to maintain adequate small coin supply forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own local currency — legally sanctioned under a 1937 Generalitat de Catalunya decree that briefly gave local authorities the right to issue emergency scrip.
At 49 × 43 mm, the format is barely larger than a postage stamp, which reflects both the low denomination and the limited printing resources available to a rural village. Turró catalogues these municipal issues exhaustively; #57 places Albagés among the smallest and most obscure issuers in the series.