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50 Céntimos Almenar
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almenar (Municipality of Almenar) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Cream card stock printed entirely in black letterpress. The issuer name 'Ajuntament d'Almenar' is set in bold type at the top, divided from the denomination line 'VAL per 50 cts.' by a double rule; below, a dotted baseline carries a handwritten serial number prefixed 'Núm.'. A violet municipal blind stamp and the manuscript signature of the Alcalde appear at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted cream card stock with a perforated border running along all four edges, a blank reverse consistent with wartime municipal emergency issues produced under severely limited resources. |
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Almenar is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Spanish Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute. The central government's inability to supply enough small-denomination coinage forced local councils to print their own — legally dubious, practically necessary.
At 52 × 35 mm, this is among the smaller examples of the genre. The thick card stock was chosen for durability over genuine paper, which tended to disintegrate quickly in daily market use.