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50 Céntimos Llorenç d'Hortons
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Llorenç d'Hortons |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Llorens d'Hortons Es reconeix al portador la quantitat de 50 CÉNTIMS Vàlid exclusivament per a aquest terme Municipal (Translation: City Council of Llorens d'Hortons The bearer is recognized the amount of 50 Centimos Valid exclusively for this Municipal term) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain yellowish cream card stock surface with no inscriptions, vignettes, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Llorenç d'Hortons is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage all but vanished from circulation after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local councils to print emergency notes (moneda de necessitat) to keep small transactions moving, which is what produced this piece — printed locally by Imprenta Ribas in nearby Vilafranca del Penedès, a press that supplied several Alt Penedès municipalities with similar issues.
Turró catalogs these Civil War municipal notes with obsessive precision precisely because their survival rates vary so wildly between townships. Llorenç d'Hortons had a population of only a few hundred, meaning total print runs for issues like this one were genuinely small.