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50 Céntimos Puigvert

Issuer Consell Municipal de Puigvert
Year 1937
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse lettering 50 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PUIGVERT VAL DE CINQUANTA CENTIMS circulació obligatòria dintre la població, garantit per l'Ajuntament. Puigvert, abril del 1937. El Caixer, Nº 0030
(Translation: Municipal Council of Puigvert Voucher of Fifty Centimos mandatory circulation within the town, guaranteed by the City Council. Puigvert, April 1937. The Cashier)
Reverse description Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain unadorned cream-white card stock with no design, text, or security elements.
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Puigvert — now Puigvert de Lleida — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued their own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War, when coin shortages stripped small transactions of any practical means of exchange. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning coin supply at the local level forced town councils across Catalonia to fill the gap themselves, often contracting with whatever printer was nearby and available.

Arts Gràfiques Ilerda operated out of Lleida, less than fifteen kilometres away. Their imprint appears on a number of these municipal issues from the surrounding comarca, which gives this note a regional coherence that many comparable pieces from more isolated villages lack.

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