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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CÉNTIMOS Ayuntamiento de Tamarite 0`50 PESETAS EMISIÓN HECHA SEGÚN ACUERDO DEL AYUNTAMIENTO EN SESIÓN DE 10 DE OCUBRE DE 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos City Council of Tamarite 0.50 Pesetas Emission made according to agreement of the city council in session of October 10, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CÉNTIMOS AYUNTº DE TAMARITE DE LITERA De curso obligatorio en este término municipal (Translation: 50 Centimos City Council of Tamarite de Litera Mandatory course in this municipality) |
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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.