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50 Céntimos Alella
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alella (Municipality of Alella) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress design on pale green paper with a floral and foliate border enclosing the central text field. A circular vignette at upper left bears the denomination '50 CENTIMS' in bold numerals, flanked by an elaborately engraved branch with leaves running along the left margin. The issuing authority 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALELLA' is printed in large capitals at upper right, with the redemption legend in Catalan script below, accompanied by two manuscript signatures under the titles 'L'ALCALDE' and 'EL CONSELLER DE FINANCES', and a circular official embossed stamp at centre right. |
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| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] Val per cinquanta cèntims únic autoritzat dins aquest terme municipal (Translation: No. [serial number] Voucher for Fifty Centimos, the only one authorized within this municipality) |
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Alella is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca north of Barcelona, better known for its white wines than its monetary history. This 50 céntimos note belongs to the wave of emergency municipal paper — moneda local — that flooded Catalonia after July 1936, when the outbreak of the Civil War caused metallic coin to vanish almost overnight through hoarding and disruption to the Mint.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona printer with Republican affiliations, responsible for a number of these small-town issues during the conflict. The embossed stamp was the municipality's primary authentication device — a practical workaround when engraved security printing was neither available nor affordable to a village council suddenly in the currency business.