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50 Céntimos Tàrrega
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tàrrega (Municipality of Tàrrega) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 90 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on a light blue background, the obverse carries the municipal emblem of Tàrrega at centre, enclosed within a decorative shell-style border. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in Catalan in letterpress text, with the legal tender obligation and place of validity clearly inscribed. The overall layout is typical of Catalan Republican emergency issues of 1936–1939. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT DE TÀRREGA CERTIFICAT DE PLATA CINQUANTA CENTIMS D`ÚS FORÇÓS SOLAMENT A TÀRREGA JUNY DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Tàrrega Silver Certificate Fifty Centimos of forced use only in Tàrrega June 1937) |
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Tàrrega is a small agricultural town in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it was forced to print its own fractional currency after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. Hoarding and melting of silver and copper left ordinary commerce paralyzed, and local ayuntamientos stepped in with emergency paper — most of it printed on whatever press was available. Here that was the Crònica Targarina, the town's own local newspaper print shop.
Turró catalogues over 2,400 distinct municipal emissions from this period; Tàrrega's issues are among the more modestly produced, with no particular printing curiosity distinguishing them beyond their purely local origin.