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50 Céntimos La Ràpita dels Alfacs
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de La Ràpita dels Alfacs |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CTS. CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LA RÀPITA DELS ALFACS Val de cinquanta cèntims emès per aquest Consell i reemborsable a la seva Caixa. La Ràpita dels Alfacs, maig del 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of La Ràpita dels Alfacs Voucher of Fifty Centimos issued for this Council and refundable in its Caixa La Ràpita dels Alfacs, May 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also in blue, is enclosed by a simple geometric border of straight and circular lines; the municipality's coat of arms, consisting of a tower, occupies the centre, flanked by the face value denomination in plain letterpress text. |
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La Ràpita dels Alfacs — now known simply as Sant Carles de la Ràpita — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional paper currency during 1937 when the Republic faced a chronic shortage of metallic coin. These local emissions were authorized under Generalitat de Catalunya oversight but produced to each town's own specifications, which accounts for the extraordinary variety in quality and format across the series.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona printer with Republican affiliations, responsible for a number of similar municipal issues from the period. Production ceased as Nationalist forces advanced into Catalonia in 1938–39, and most of these small-denomination notes were demonetized and destroyed shortly after.