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50 Céntimos Puigreig
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Puig-reig (Municipality of Puig-reig) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 105 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Light green note with dark green letterpress text throughout. The municipal coat of arms appears in the upper right corner, flanked by laurel branch vignettes framing the face value. The principal inscriptions identify the issuing authority and cite the authorising municipal agreement of 29 June 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CTS. AJUNTAMENT DE PUIGREIG CINQUANTA CTS. QUANTITAT RECONEGUDA EN VIRTUT DE L`ACORD DEL 29 DE JUNY 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos City Council of Puig-reig Fifty Centimos Amount recognised by virtue of agreement of June 29, 1937) |
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Puig-reig is a small textile-industry town in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities in 1937, its local government issued emergency fractional currency after the collapse of reliable coin supply in the early months of the Civil War. The Republican government's inability to maintain small change in circulation drove this wave of municipal paper — at its peak, well over a thousand Spanish localities were printing their own notes.
El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of these municipal issues out of Barcelona. Finding a Puig-reig note in any condition takes effort; the print runs for villages of this size were modest, and most circulated hard before being discarded once the wartime emergency passed.