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50 Céntimos Altafulla
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Altafulla |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-coloured paperboard ground with letterpress typography throughout. Upper portion carries a rectangular decorative border enclosing the issuer's name, flanked at left by a small vignette of the four-bar Catalan coat of arms of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Below, the face value and purpose clause are set in two lines of bold typeface. |
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| Reverse lettering | VILLA DE ALTAFULLA (Translation: Town of Altafulla) |
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Altafulla is a small coastal municipality in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republic's metallic coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. These locally printed notes — called moneda local or paper moneda — were produced under the authority of the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree permitting municipalities to fill the void left by the coin shortage. Turró catalogues hundreds of these emissions, and Altafulla's is among the more modest: a small run from a small town, almost certainly printed locally on whatever stock was available.
Paperboard construction is common across this series and tends to be its greatest enemy — corners crack, surfaces split along the grain, and even unfolded examples often show stress marks from humidity cycles over eight decades.