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50 Céntimos Cervià de les Garrigues
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cervià de les Garrigues |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed on plain buff card stock in two colors. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT appears in large orange capitals across the top, with the face value VAL 50 cèntims set in bold black type to the left; the municipality name CERVIÀ is rendered in large orange capitals at the lower right, accompanied by the series designation Sèrie C. in black. The design is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CERVIÀ VAL 50 cèntims Sèrie C. (Translation: City Council of Cervià Value 50 Centimos Series C.) |
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Cervià de les Garrigues is a small municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns it issued its own emergency small change during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. These municipal fractional notes — often printed on whatever card stock was locally available — were produced under a decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya authorizing ayuntamientos to cover the chronic shortage of low-denomination currency.
Turró catalogues this as #814. The thick card format was common among the smaller Lleida municipalities, where access to proper banknote paper was limited.