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50 Céntimos Alp
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alp (Municipality of Alp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with a single rectangular border frame in dark ink. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALP' is printed in bold dark letterpress across the upper portion, separated from the lower field by a horizontal rule, with the denomination '50 CENTIMS' in large bold type at the bottom. A circular green official stamp of the Republican municipality of Alp, bearing a landscape vignette, is applied to the left side, alongside a handwritten serial number prefixed 'Núm.' |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALP Núm. 50 CENTIMS (Translation: City Council of Alp / No. / 50 Centimos) |
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Alp is a small municipality in the Cerdanya comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency small-change notes — "moneda local" — to fill the vacuum left by hoarded and melted coinage. The Republican government's Generalitat de Catalunya broadly authorized these emissions in 1937, but the individual designs and print runs were handled locally, often by whichever printer was available. For a village the size of Alp, that typically meant very modest quantities.
Turró catalogues this as #129, placing it within the documented Cerdanya regional emissions. Survivors are scarce simply because the notes were redeemed or discarded when central currency was restored.