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50 Céntimos Argentera
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de l'Argentera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream card stock with a simple teal-inked rectangular border with rounded corners. At the top, the issuer's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL ARGENTERA' is printed in two lines, below which a small municipal coat of arms vignette appears alongside a handwritten serial number preceded by 'Núm.' A circular violet validation stamp overlaps the left side of the note. The value 'Val 50 Cts.' is printed in large bold letterpress text across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL ARGENTERA Núm. Val 50 Cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Argentera / Number / Voucher 50 Centimos) |
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The Consell Municipal de l'Argentera issued this note during the Civil War period when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left Catalan municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency fractional currency. These locally printed pieces — known collectively as "moneda de butxaca" or pocket money — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's 1937 framework permitting municipal councils to fill the gap left by hoarded Republican coins.
L'Argentera is a tiny village in the Baix Camp comarca. The sheer smallness of the issuing authority makes Turró-catalogued survivors genuinely rare; production runs for settlements this size were often in the low hundreds.