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50 Céntimos Almatret
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almatret (Municipality of Almatret) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock bearing two overlapping validation stamps applied in lieu of any printed design: an oval stamp in red ink with a serrated border reading 'PARTIT … ALMATRET', and a circular stamp in blue ink inscribed 'SINDICATO DE TRABAJADORES C.A.T. ALMATRET'. A handwritten notation appears in the upper right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | PARTIT … ALMATRET SINDICATO DE TRABAJADORES C.A.T. ALMATRET |
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Almatret is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. That a village of this size was printing its own fractional currency in 1937 reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain during the Civil War — metallic coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation, forcing hundreds of Catalan municipalities to fill the gap with locally issued paper.
The Turró catalogue documents over a thousand such emissions from across Catalonia alone. Almatret's issue is among the more obscure, which typically means lower survival rates.