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50 Céntimos Argelaguer
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Argelaguer |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#196 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'ARGELAGUER El Consell Municipal d'Argelaguer reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA Cts. Argelaguer, 1 de Gener del 1938. (Translation: Municipal Council of Argelaguer The Municipal Council of Argelaguer recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos. Argelaguer, 1 January 1938.) |
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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.