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50 Céntimos Garriguella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Garriguella |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in crimson-red and blue on plain paper, enclosed within a two-tone geometric border of dark blue and cyan with repeating foliate corner ornaments and lateral scroll motifs. The issuer legend 'AJUNTAMENT DE GARRIGUELLA' is set in bold red letterpress at the top, separated from the denomination panel by a row of red wavy rules; the lower half bears the value inscription 'VAL PER 50 CENTIMS' in large red type. An oval official municipality stamp with a crown vignette is applied in blue at centre, and the printer's imprint 'Treyler, Figueres' appears in the lower right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GARRIGUELLA VAL PER 50 CENTIMS (Translation: City Council of Garriguella Valid for 50 Centims) |
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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.