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50 Céntimos Alcarràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alcarràs (Municipality of Alcarràs) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed on light tan paper, with a thin ruled border enclosing all text. The denomination is set within a rectangular box at upper right, with the issuing authority, series letter, and serial number printed across the upper portion. Three signature lines for the Mayor (L'Alcalde), Treasurer (El Dipositari), and Secretary-Comptroller (El Secretari-Interventor) occupy the centre, with the validating and issuing clauses in smaller type at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE B No 01998 L'Ajuntament d'Alcarràs (Lleida) ABONARÀ AL PORTADOR CINQUANTA CÉNTIMS Alcarràs, 6 de Maig del 1937 L'Alcalde, El Dipositari, El Secretari-Interventor, Vàlid dins el terme d'Alcarràs. Expedit per a suplir la manca de moneda fraccionària. (Translation: City Council of Alcarràs (Lleida) Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos Alcarràs, May 6, 1937 The Mayor, The Treasurer, The Secretary-Comptroller, Valid within the municipality of Alcarràs. Issued to make up for the lack of fractional currency.) |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes issued across Catalonia after the outbreak of the Civil War disrupted the supply of small-denomination coinage. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin circulation forced individual towns — Alcarràs among them — to commission their own paper fractional currency, typically from the nearest available printer. Xavier Asensio's Lleida press was a natural choice for several surrounding municipalities in the Segrià comarca.
Turró catalogues these local emissions extensively; #79 places Alcarràs within a well-documented regional pattern, though surviving examples from small agricultural towns in this range tend to be considerably scarcer than those from larger urban centers.