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50 Céntimos Argelaguer
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Argelaguer |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper stock printed in black letterpress, the face carrying the full text of the municipal promise-to-pay obligation arranged in justified paragraphs within a double-rule rectangular border; a violet geometric guilloche underprint covers the background field. The date of issue, 1 January 1938, appears at the foot of the text block. |
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| Reverse lettering | Consell Municipal d'Argelaguer 50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Argelaguer 50 Centimos) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican zone faced a chronic shortage of small change. The Consell Municipal d'Argelaguer — a tiny village in the Garrotxa comarca with a population of only a few hundred — issued its own scrip under the same decree that authorized local emergency currency across the region in 1937–38.
These hyper-local emissions were typically printed in very small runs and rarely traveled far. Survival rates are low not because of heavy use but because almost nobody thought to preserve them.