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50 Céntimos Pont d'Armentera
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Pont d'Armentera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'EL PONT D'ARMENTERA La Tresoreria de l'Ajuntament reconeix a favor del portador 50 cèntims El Pont d'Armentera, 17 de Febrer del 1937 (Translation: City Council of El Pont d'Armentera The City Council's Treasury recognizes in favor of the bearer 50 Centimos El Pont d'Armentera, February 17, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed in blue, with the large numeral '50' at upper left and 'CENTIMS' to its right in bold letterpress type. A two-line statutory inscription occupies the centre, a serial number in blue is printed at lower centre, and the printer's imprint 'IMP. QUERALT - VALLS' appears at lower right. Ghost impressions of the obverse text are visible through the thin paper stock. |
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El Pont d'Armentera is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during 1936–37 after the Civil War's outbreak caused a near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate small change pushed the burden onto local authorities — ajuntaments, trade unions, and cooperatives — producing a dense and chaotic ecosystem of hyper-local paper.
Imprenta Queralt in Valls was a regional workhorse for these emissions, handling notes for several Alt Camp municipalities. The Turró catalogue remains the authoritative reference for Catalan Civil War municipal issues, and the 1942 number places this firmly within a well-documented but physically scarce series — small-town emissions were used hard and rarely survived.