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50 Céntimos El Perelló
| Issuer | Ajuntament del Perelló |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 0'50 L'AJUNTAMENT DEL PERELLÓ reconeix a favor del portador CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Acord municipal 6 juny del 1937. (Translation: The City Council of El Perelló recognizes in favor of the bearer Fifty Centimos Municipal agreement June 6, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark blue ink with a ruled rectangular border matching the obverse. The municipal oval coat of arms of El Perelló is centered on the note. The denomination and the mandatory local currency status are stated in a plain typographic arrangement. |
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El Perelló is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the collapse of small coin circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning subsidiary coinage — partly due to hoarding, partly due to wartime metal demands — forced local councils across the Republican zone to print their own emergency scrip. These ajuntament-issued notes had no legal standing beyond the issuing municipality's own market.
Imprenta Solé was one of several Tarragona-area printers kept busy with such commissions throughout 1937. The Turró catalogue documents over two thousand distinct local issues from this period; this note is among the more obscure provincial examples, from a town with a population then well under a thousand.