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50 Centimos Ametlla del Vallès
| Issuer | L'Ametlla del Vallès, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the large bold denomination inscription '50 Cts' rendered in a decorative serif typeface, occupying the majority of the coin's face. The upper and lower registers feature horizontal milled or lined texturing, creating a distinctive ribbed background effect. Small foliate or leaf ornaments appear at each of the four corners of the central panel, lending a modest decorative border to the design. The overall composition is stark and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency coinage produced under Republican Spain during the Civil War. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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L'Ametlla del Vallès issued this piece during the acute coin shortage that struck Republican Catalonia in 1937, when the central government's collapse in monetary distribution forced hundreds of municipalities to produce their own emergency fractional currency. These local issues — collectively catalogued under the Spanish *guerra civil* municipal series — were legally sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya, which granted provisional minting authority to town councils as small as a few thousand inhabitants. The KM#2.2 designation distinguishes this from at least one earlier die variety, suggesting the municipality ran through more than one production run.