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50 Céntimos Camarasa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Camarasa (Municipality of Camarasa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain typographic reverse printed in black, incorporating a square blank space reserved for the application of the municipal stamp and a diamond-shaped cartouche indicating the face value. Textual legends state the expiry date and the obligatory circulation clause. |
| Reverse lettering | Venciment 27 març del 1938 Cinquanta Cèntims Curs obligatori per a canvi (Translation: Expiry 27 March 1938 Fifty Centimos Mandatory tender for change) |
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Camarasa is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coin shortages made small change effectively impossible to obtain. The Consell Municipal authorised these notes under the broad emergency powers extended to local governments by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1937.
Imprenta Unió Obrera in Balaguer — itself a collectivised print shop operating under anarcho-syndicalist management during this period — produced emergency scrip for several Noguera comarca towns, which accounts for certain shared typographic characteristics across the series.