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50 Céntimos Cantallops
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cantallops (Municipality of Cantallops) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress voucher printed in blue and red on cream card stock. The outer border consists of alternating blue and red dots forming a decorative frame, enclosing an inner double-line rectangular rule. The issuer name 'Ajuntament de CANTALLOPS' appears in bold blue type at the top, separated by a double rule from the denomination 'Val per 50 cts.' printed in large red Gothic lettering at centre. Below, signature lines for 'L'Alcalde' and 'El Dipositari' flank the centre, with the printer's imprint 'Trayter, Figueres' at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain typeset reverse printed entirely in blue on cream card stock, enclosed within a simple double-line rectangular border. A bold serial number field headed 'Nº' occupies the upper portion. The lower half carries three lines of text citing the authorising council resolution and reimbursement clause, separated from the serial area by blank space. A faint circular municipal stamp impression is visible at left. |
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Cantallops is a village in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia with a population that barely exceeded 300 in the 1930s. That a municipality this small was issuing its own fractional currency speaks directly to the near-total collapse of small change circulation in Republican-held Catalonia during the early Civil War years — hoarding of metal coinage was so severe that towns and parishes across the region began printing their own emergency paper by mid-1937.
Imprenta Trayter in nearby Figueres handled a significant share of these local emissions across Alt Empordà. The Turró catalogue documents hundreds of such issues; #644 places this squarely in a documented series, not a one-off improvisation.