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50 Céntimos Almoster
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almoster |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff cardboard note with text printed in dark blue ink. An oval vignette at the upper left encloses the initials 'SVE' within a decorative wreath border, serving as the municipal stamp. The issuer's name appears in bold letterpress at the top right, separated from the value text by a set of parallel horizontal rules. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALMOSTER VAL per cinquanta cèntims de pesseta al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi ANY 1937. (Translation: City Council of Almoster Valid for Fifty Centimos of Peseta for the sole purpose of facilitating change Year 1937.) |
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Almoster is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively authorized local bodies to fill the coin shortage left by hoarding and metal requisitions. The Ajuntament contracted Imprenta Solé in Tarragona, a printer responsible for a significant number of these local wartime issues across the province.
Turró catalogues this as #126. The cardboard construction is typical of the practical constraints facing small municipalities — proper banknote paper was not available to village councils.