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50 Céntimos Pont d'Armentera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pont d'Armentera |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in lilac on a green geometric underprint, the entire face is occupied by a letterpress text composition enclosed within an ornamental decorative border. The issuing authority, the obligation to pay the bearer, the denomination in Catalan, and the authorizing council resolution dated 7 September 1937 are all set in letterpress within the framed field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in lilac on a green geometric underprint, with a simple linear border framing the text field in place of the more elaborate ornamental surround of the obverse. The denomination in numerals and the issue designation are set in letterpress within the framed field. |
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Pont d'Armentera is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These hyper-local issues — sometimes printed in runs of only a few hundred — were legal tender only within the issuing municipality's boundaries, making cross-town redemption essentially worthless and out-of-town survival rates correspondingly low.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled a number of these municipal issues from the surrounding comarca, which gives the printing a degree of consistency unusual for wartime emergency notes of this scale.