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50 Céntimos Alfara dels Ports
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alfara dels Ports (Municipality of Alfara dels Ports) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress design printed in dark green ink on cream paper, with a decorative vine-and-leaf border running along the left side and upper edge of the note. The denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' appears in two circular vignettes at lower-left and upper-right. A faint circular municipality stamp is visible at centre, above two handwritten signatures in red ink attributed to the Mayor (L'Alcalde) and the Secretary (El Secretari). |
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| Reverse description | Typeset reverse printed in dark green ink on cream paper, with a plain single-rule border frame. The series designation 'Sèrie A' appears at upper left, with a manuscript serial number in red ink following 'N.º'. The denomination '50 CÈNTIMS 50' is set in large bold type at centre, above the issuing authority legend in italic script and the circulation restriction in bold display type. The printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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Alfara dels Ports is a tiny inland municipality in the Ports de Morella comarca — fewer than 300 inhabitants even in the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning coin supply prompted hundreds of Catalan and Valencian municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional currency under a 1937 decree. This note is one of those local solutions: a community printing money because silver and copper had effectively vanished from everyday trade.
The printer, S. G. de P. at Carrer de Borrell in Barcelona, handled a considerable volume of these municipal emergency issues across the region. Turró catalogues this as #96.