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50 Céntimos Carme
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Carme (Municipality of Carme) |
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| Size | 62 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in blue ink on unadorned tan card stock, the obverse carries three lines of large serif lettering centred on the note: the municipal authority name above, the locality name at centre, and the face value statement below. The absence of any vignette or underprint gives the note a purely typographic character typical of wartime emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on plain tan card stock and shows a rectangular double-line border frame at centre, with a serial number in bold letterpress type positioned in the lower portion of the frame, followed by a decorative asterisk mark to its right. |
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Carme is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War — a direct response to the acute coin shortage that followed the Republic's monetary disruptions of 1936–1937. These local emissions, collectively cataloged under the Turró reference system, were often produced by whatever printing resources the local council could access: a village press, a rubber stamp, occasionally just hand-written card stock.
At this scale of municipality, surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon. Carme's wartime population was small, production runs were limited, and most of these notes were superseded or destroyed once the Nationalist advance through Catalonia concluded in early 1939.