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50 Céntimos Alp
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alp (Municipality of Alp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | L`AJUNTAMENT D`ALP reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de 50 cèntims en virtut de l`acord del 21 de maig del 1937 Alp, el 26 de maig del 1937 Imp. `El Secretariat Català` (Translation: The City Council of Alp recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos under the agreement of May 21, 1937 Alp, May 26, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream ground enclosed within a double-line rectangular border printed in brown. The large numeral "50" occupies the upper-left area of the central field, with the denomination word "cèntims" set in smaller letterpress type below. A serial number appears above the denomination in the upper portion of the framed area. |
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Alp is a small municipality in the Cerdanya comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money after the Republic's small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. These emergency local notes — collectively catalogued under the Turró reference system — were produced in enormous variety across Catalonia, with quality ranging from crude rubber-stamp affairs to reasonably competent typographic work.
This note was printed by El Secretariat Català in Barcelona, which handled emergency currency for numerous small municipalities during this period. Survival rates for Alp's issues are low simply because the town's population was small and print runs were correspondingly modest.