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50 Céntimos Peramola
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Peramola (Municipality of Peramola) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in dark blue ink on a light blue dotted underprint, with a geometric border framing the entire face. The central field carries the municipal text in Catalan, arranged in several lines within the ruled border, with no pictorial vignette. The overall composition is typographic in character, consistent with wartime emergency letterpress production. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is bisected vertically by a row of small square dots, dividing the face into two panels. The left panel provides a blank circular space reserved for the application of the municipal seal, while the right panel carries the obligatory currency text in Catalan. The design is austere and purely typographic, consistent with emergency issue production. |
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Peramola is a tiny municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Lleida province — population well under a thousand even today. This note is one of the thousands of small-denomination emergency issues produced by Catalan towns during 1936–37, when the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply forced local authorities to print their own fractional currency. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized these municipal emissions in June 1937, though many towns had already been issuing them informally for months.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida handled a considerable volume of these local commissions. Turró catalogued over 2,000 distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period; Peramola's emission is among the more obscure.