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50 Céntimos Puigpelat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Puigpelat (Municipality of Puigpelat) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark blue ink on orange card stock, the face is organised into three horizontal registers separated by ruled lines. The uppermost register carries the issuing authority in bold spaced capitals; the central register states the denomination and redemption clause in two lines of contrasting type sizes; below the lower rule, the printed titles of the Mayor and Secretary appear in italic above their respective manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PUIGPELAT Val per 50 cèntims al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi L'Alcalde, El Secretari, (Translation: City Council of Puigpelat Valid for 50 centimos with the sole purpose of facilitating change The Mayor, The Secretary,) |
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Puigpelat is a tiny municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and like hundreds of similarly small Catalan towns, it resorted to locally produced emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. These ajuntament-issued notes — technically *moneda local* — were sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya but executed entirely at the local level, which meant production quality varied wildly from town to town.
The Turró catalogue documents only two Puigpelat emissions. Survivorship is low not because circulation was heavy, but because most were redeemed or simply discarded once the Nationalist forces consolidated control of Tarragona province in early 1939.