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50 Céntimos Agramunt
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Agramunt (Municipality of Agramunt) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 92 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Light orange underprint of stylised foliate scrollwork covers the entire field, with a green letterpress-printed ornamental border of interlaced floral and leaf motifs framing the note. The issuer's title 'AJUNTAMENT D'AGRAMUNT' appears at the top in bold capitals, followed by the guarantee text and the large-denomination numeral '50 CENTIMS' in the centre. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left and right, attributed to the Mayor ('L'Alcalde') and Finance officer ('Finances'), with the place and date 'Agramunt, març del 1937' printed between them. |
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| Reverse lettering | Aquest BON de 50 CENTIMS fineix el 31 de març del 1938 (Translation: This Bond of 50 Centimos expires on 31 March 1938) |
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Agramunt, a small town in the Lleida province of Catalonia, issued its own fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War as part of a widespread breakdown in small-change supply. The Republican government's wartime disruptions left municipalities across Catalonia printing their own paper fraccions to keep local commerce moving — Agramunt's series was produced by a local press, Miquel Pera, working within the same town that issued them.
The Turró catalog documents hundreds of these Catalan municipal emissions, and Agramunt's entries are among the more obscure. Survival rates for low-denomination wartime locals are generally poor; most circulated hard and were discarded once the emergency passed.