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50 Céntimos Les Preses
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Les Preses |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | L'AJUNTAMENT DE LES PRESES reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de 50 CÈNTIMS (Segons acord del 14 d'agost del 1937) BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI 50 Cts. (Translation: The City Council of Les Preses recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos (According to agreement of August 14, 1937) Mandatory local currency banknote 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in red on plain paper within a triple-rule rectangular border. The denomination '50 Cts.' appears at upper left alongside the issuer name, followed by a series and serial number designation, three manuscript signatures below the titles L'Interventor, L'Alcalde, and El Depositari, with the printer's imprint at the bottom margin. |
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Les Preses is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the collapse of coin circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to supply small change forced local councils — ajuntaments — to fill the gap themselves, producing notes that were technically only valid within their own municipal boundaries.
Gràfiques Minerva in Olot handled a substantial volume of these Garrotxa-region municipal issues, which gives the printing a consistency unusual among emergency local currency. The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for this material.