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50 Céntimos Ampolla
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Ampolla (Municipality of Ampolla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange letterpress text on cream paper, with a geometric guilloche border framing the note's perimeter. The municipal coat of arms is centrally placed, dividing the issuer name rendered in Catalan. The payment obligation legend runs across the face in two lines of bold capital lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Orange letterpress text on cream paper over a pale geometric guilloche underprint composed of interlocking oval and lattice motifs filling the entire field. A bold orange border frames the note, with the mandatory local currency legend at the top, the series designation, denomination, and date of issue arranged across the centre and lower portions. |
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Ampolla is a small coastal municipality in the Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money after the Republic's metal coinage effectively disappeared from circulation in 1936–37 — hoarded, melted down, or simply gone. These local emergency emissions, known collectively as moneda de guerra or paper de guerra, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework for municipal issuance and were only valid within the issuing locality.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona printed for several small municipalities in the region. Turró catalogues this emission as a single denomination, suggesting Ampolla's needs were modest even by the standards of comparable village issues.