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50 Céntimos Igualada
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Igualada (Municipality of Igualada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`IGUALADA Val per 50 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Igualada Valid for 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain white card stock reverse with a black letterpress-printed serial number centered in the lower half of the note. A faint ghost impression of the obverse design is visible through the thin stock, a common characteristic of wartime emergency card issues. |
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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.