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50 Céntimos Pobla de Claramunt
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Pobla de Claramunt |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in dark purple-brown ink on cream card stock, with a dashed rectangular border running the full perimeter. The issuing authority inscription appears in the upper portion in two lines, with the denomination in large bold letterpress numerals and abbreviated lettering in the lower half. A faint circular official stamp is visible to the left, partially overlapping the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE POBLA DE CLARAMUNT 50 CTS. (Translation: City Council of Pobla de Claramunt 50 Centimos) |
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La Pobla de Claramunt is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during 1937 when the Republic's small-change crisis left local commerce grinding to a halt. The central government's inability to supply adequate coinage — partly due to silver hoarding, partly wartime disruption — forced municipalities down to the village level to print their own.
Turró catalogues this issue under #1893, placing it firmly within Catalonia's extraordinary wartime municipalist monetary experiment. Locally produced on heavy card rather than proper banknote stock, these pieces were never intended to travel far.