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50 Céntimos Igualada
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Igualada (Municipality of Igualada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 49 × 34 mm |
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| Obverse description | White card stock with carmine-printed municipal coat of arms vignette at left and issuer name across the upper field. The face value is printed in black in the central foreground. The overall layout is plain and typographic, consistent with wartime emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'IGUALADA Val per 50 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Igualada Valid for 50 Centimos) |
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Igualada, a textile-manufacturing town in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War years when Republican Spain suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. Municipal and local entity issues like this one — collectively catalogued under the broader *bitllets de necessitat* classification — proliferated across Catalonia from 1936 onward, with each issuing body responsible for its own printing arrangements and backing.
The card-stock construction was deliberate: at this size, thin paper would have disintegrated within weeks of handling in a busy market town.