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50 Céntimos Preixens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Preixens (Municipality of Preixens) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue ink, with a geometric perimeter border composed of rhombus and square repeating units forming an underprint background in light blue. The text block carries the denomination numeral '50' at each lateral margin, with the issuing authority and promise-to-pay legend in Catalan centered in the body of the note. A red oval municipal control stamp is applied over the face of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT DE PREIXENTS LA DIPOSITARIA D`AQUEST AJUNTAMENT PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR 50 CENTIMS MARÇ DEL 1937. (Translation: City Council of Preixents The Depositary of this City Council will pay the bearer 50 Centimos March 1937.) |
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Preixens is a tiny municipality in the Lleida comarca of La Segarra — its population in the 1930s numbered only a few hundred. That it issued its own emergency paper currency at all reflects the extraordinary fragmentation of the Republican monetary response to the Civil War, when hundreds of Catalan towns and villages produced local scrip after the July 1936 coinage collapse drained metallic currency from everyday commerce.
Printed by Imprenta A. Figueres in nearby Tàrrega, which handled emergency notes for several small municipalities in the region. The Turró catalog records only this single denomination for Preixens.