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50 Céntimos Tamarite de Litera
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Tamarite de Litera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-background letterpress note with bold black typography and a geometric border frame enclosing the entire face. Municipal landscape vignettes of Tamarite de Litera are arranged within the design, lending a local character to this wartime emergency issue. The denomination '50 CÉNTIMOS' and issuing authority appear in prominent block lettering, with the full session authorisation text rendered in smaller type across the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Plain black letterpress printing on white paper with a geometric frame border mirroring the obverse layout. The municipal coat of arms of Tamarite de Litera occupies the central field, flanked by the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions. A mandatory-circulation notice appears below, affirming the note's legal tender status within the municipal territory. |
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Tamarite de Litera is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it printed its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republic's coinage supply effectively collapsed. The peseta's silver and copper had been hoarded or melted, leaving local economies to improvise. These municipal emissions — vale, billete local, whatever the town called them — were theoretically redeemable but in practice circulated purely on local trust.
Seix i Barral, the Barcelona printer responsible for this note, was primarily a book publisher. The press handled a significant volume of Republican-era ephemera during the war years, including other municipal issues across Catalonia and Aragon.