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50 Céntimos Almacelles
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almacelles |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic pen-and-ink vignette of the town of Almacelles extends across the upper portion of the note, with a tree to the left foreground and flat agricultural terrain in the middle ground. The denomination and mandatory circulation text appear in bold letterpress in the lower half, with a handwritten-style date inscription at the top. A red serial number is printed in the lower left area, and the printer's imprint appears at the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Almacelles, octubre del 1937 CINQUANTA CTS. BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI IMP. SOL-LLEIDA (Translation: Almacelles, October 1937 Fifty Centimos Mandatory Local Currency Banknote Printed by Sol Press, Lleida) |
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Almacelles is a small agricultural municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like dozens of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament resorted to issuing its own fractional paper currency after the Republican government's coinage collapsed from hoarding and metal requisition. These local emergency issues — collectively called *moneda de necessitat* — filled an acute gap in everyday trade during 1936–38, particularly in rural communities where the peseta system had effectively ceased to function at small denominations.
Printed by Imprenta Sol in Lleida, a commercial press that produced several municipal issues from the region. Turró catalogues this as #116.