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50 Céntimos Menàrguens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Menàrguens (Municipality of Menàrguens) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MENARGUENS Val 50 cts. Valor interior per a facilitar els canvis (Translation: City Council of Menarguens Voucher 50 Centimos Lower value to facilitate exchanges) |
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| Protection description | Oval municipal stamp of the Ajuntament de Menàrguens applied to the reverse as authentication |
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Menàrguens is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute after 1936. These local paper issues — collectively known as moneda local or paper moneda de necessitat — were produced by municipal councils with almost no oversight, which accounts for the enormous variation in printing quality, material, and format across the series.
Turró catalogued over 1,700 distinct Catalan local issues from this period. That this one survives at all is notable given the improvised card stock typically used and the political urgency surrounding its destruction after the Nationalist takeover.