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50 Céntimos Térmens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Térmens (Municipality of Térmens) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Unió Obrera, Balaguer, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Termens BON Cinquanta Cèntims contra la Caixa Municipal. Termens, abril del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Termens Bond 50 Centimos against the Municipal Fund. Termens, April 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on an ocher dotted underprint, with a large central diamond-shaped vignette formed by geometric corner ornaments and vertical rule clusters at top and bottom. A circular blue official stamp of the municipality appears to the left, and the printer's imprint reads "Imp. U.O.-Balaguer" at lower right. |
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Térmens is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of similarly sized Catalan towns, it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency in 1937 after Republican Spain's chronic shortage of small coinage became functionally paralyzing. The Imprenta Unió Obrera — a workers' collective print shop in nearby Balaguer — produced emergency paper for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which means production quality and paper stock vary considerably even within the same series.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 such local emissions from the Civil War years; this one is among the more obscure, with surviving population figures that remain genuinely uncertain.