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50 Céntimos Garriguella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Garriguella |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GARRIGUELLA VAL PER 50 CENTIMS (Translation: City Council of Garriguella Valid for 50 Centims) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain off-white paper stock with a visible fibrous texture characteristic of the period's emergency issue material. |
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Garriguella is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and this 50 céntimos note is one of the thousands of local emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. Town councils — ajuntaments — were left to print their own fractional currency to keep local commerce moving, resulting in an extraordinary proliferation of hyper-local paper.
Imprenta Trayter in Figueres handled a significant number of these Alt Empordà municipal issues, which gives the series a certain regional coherence despite the chaotic circumstances of production.