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5 Céntimos El Soleràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de El Soleràs (Municipality of El Soleràs) |
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| Size | 70 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on cream-coloured card stock in black ink. The issuing authority's name, AJUNTAMENT DE EL SOLERAS, is set in bold capital letters at the top centre, flanked on the right by a vertical series of registration bars. A row of downward-pointing triangular ornaments serves as a decorative divider across the middle of the note, below which the denomination VAL PER 5 CTS. is printed in large bold type. The serial number appears vertically along the left margin, and the guarantee legend GARANTIT PER LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL runs along the lower edge in smaller lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock reverse, bearing a handwritten violet ink signature or validation stamp applied in manuscript script across the centre of the face, consistent with an authorising official's hand-cancellation. |
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El Soleràs is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local bodies to print their own vales and bitllets de necessitat to keep small commerce functioning — a decentralized monetary improvisation that produced thousands of distinct local issues across the region.
Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for these Catalan war-era municipals, and a listing at #2386 places this firmly in the documented record, though El Soleràs issues are rarely encountered outside Catalan specialist collections.