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50 Céntimos El Soleràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de El Soleràs (Municipality of El Soleràs) |
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| Size | 70 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark navy ink on red card stock, the obverse carries the issuing authority name 'AJUNTAMENT DE EL SOLERAS' in bold letterpress at the top, flanked on the right by a decorative block of ruled lines serving as a rudimentary ornamental element. A row of stylised geometric arrow-like vignettes runs across the centre, below which the denomination 'Val per 50 cts.' is stated in large bold script. A handstamp impression is visible at centre, and the guarantee legend 'Garantid per la Caixa Municipal' appears along the lower margin; a serial number preceded by 'No.' is printed vertically along the left edge. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain red card stock, unprinted and without any text, vignette, or ornamental device, consistent with the utilitarian production methods of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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El Soleràs is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan townships during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency — paper and card substitutes pushed into local use after the hoarding of metallic coin made small change effectively impossible to find. The Republican decree of September 1937 attempted to regularize these local emissions, but many municipalities, including the smallest, had already been printing their own scrip for months before any central oversight existed.
Turró 2384 is among the more obscure village issues, and surviving examples are rarely encountered in the trade.