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50 Céntimos L'Ametlla de Mar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de L'Ametlla de Mar (Municipality of L'Ametlla de Mar) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#139 |
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| Reverse description | A vignette in the lower half depicts the building of the National Schools (Escoles Nacionals) of L'Ametlla de Mar, rendered as a long single-storey structure with multiple windows, set against a plain ground. The note is printed in purple and yellow, with a geometric guilloche border framing the entire composition, and the series letter and serial number appearing in the upper portion. |
| Reverse lettering | SÈRIE B 0834 Aquest bitllet deurà presentar-se al canvi abans del 1er de juliol de 1938 (Translation: Series B 0834 / This banknote must be submitted for exchange before 1 July 1938) |
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L'Ametlla de Mar is a small fishing town on the Costa Daurada, and this note is one of hundreds of municipal emergency issues that flooded Catalonia and the rest of Republican Spain after July 1936, when the hoarding of metal coinage — driven by wartime panic — created an acute shortage of small change. The central Republican government had largely lost control of monetary circulation at the local level; municipalities printed what they needed and hoped for the best.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a significant volume of these small-town issues across the province, which accounts for the family resemblance among several Turró-catalogued notes from the area.