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50 Céntimos Alcanó
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alcanó (Municipality of Alcanó) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue-black ink on buff card stock, with the issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALCANÓ' enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular frame bordered on all sides by a row of dots. The denomination 'Val per 50 cts.' is set in large bold gothic type occupying the central field, with the guarantee legend 'Garantid per la Caixa Municipal' printed in smaller roman type along the lower margin. A handwritten serial number appears vertically along the left stub. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff card stock reverse, largely unprinted, bearing a faint oval municipal validation stamp applied in blue ink at centre and a handwritten authorising signature in blue ink in the lower portion of the field. |
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Alcanó is a tiny municipality in the Terres de l'Ebre region of Catalonia — population measured in the hundreds even today. This 50 céntimos note is one of thousands of emergency municipal issues that flooded Spain during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change supply collapsed in 1936. Coins vanished from circulation almost immediately, hoarded or melted, forcing even the smallest ayuntamientos to print their own fractional currency.
Turró catalogues these Catalan municipals exhaustively; #77 places Alcanó among the more obscure emitters, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce simply because so few were printed to begin with.