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50 Céntimos Ponts
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ponts (Municipality of Ponts) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Ponts Val 50 cts. El Caixer, L'Alcalde, (Translation: City Council of Ponts / Voucher 50 Centimos / The Cashier, / The Mayor,) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted brown card stock bearing a single violet oval municipal dry stamp applied in the upper right area; no other design elements or text are present. |
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Ponts is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, Catalonia, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the Spanish Civil War emergency coinage crisis — specifically the acute shortage of small change that hit Republican-controlled territory from mid-1936 onward. With the national monetary system functionally collapsed at the local level, hundreds of Catalan municipalities issued their own paper fractional currency under loose authorization from the Generalitat. Ponts was among the smallest communities to do so, which is precisely why Turró-catalogued examples from this issuer are genuinely difficult to locate today.
Production was almost certainly local — small-run, likely a commercial printer in the region or a hand-stamped card solution. Survival rates for these micro-municipal issues are low; most circulated hard and fast before being rendered worthless.