Catalog
50 Céntimos Puig-Alt de Ter
| Issuer | Puig-alt de Ter, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 105 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a circular vignette enclosed by a laurel wreath contains two intertwined hands in a fraternal handshake; to the left of the wreath, the local municipal coat of arms, and to the right, a hammer and sickle device. Denomination and mandatory circulation inscriptions appear in Catalan around the central motif. |
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| Reverse description | A rural vignette occupies the central field, showing a farmer wearing a broad-brimmed hat, one fist raised in a clenched salute and a sickle held in the other hand, rising from a background of wheat ears. The denomination appears in figures above the composition. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the collapse of small coin circulation forced local authorities to print their own fractional currency. Puig-alt de Ter is a small municipality in the comarca of Osona, and like most villages of its size, it contracted printing to a regional cooperative rather than managing the job locally — hence the Cooperativa d'Arts Gràfiques in nearby Ripoll.
The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for this chaotic series. Many of these village emissions survived in tiny quantities; others were printed in such limited runs that fewer than a handful of examples are now traceable.