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50 Céntimos Ulldemolins
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ulldemolins (Municipality of Ulldemolins) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Cuscó, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress text on a yellow underprint of geometric squares, with the coat of arms of Catalonia positioned at the upper left. A geometric guilloche border frames the entire note. The central text block carries the municipal authorization and denomination in Catalan, dated 19 June 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress text on a yellow background, enclosed within a geometric and floral ornamental border. The denomination numeral '50' and the mandatory circulation clause are set in a simple typographic layout without pictorial vignettes. |
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Ulldemolins is a small village in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The hoarding of metal — copper and nickel alike — was immediate and near-universal once the war began, forcing local councils to paper over the gap themselves.
Imprenta Cuscó handled production for several of these municipal issues, which kept quality reasonably consistent across an otherwise chaotic patchwork of local emissions. Turró catalogues this series but surviving examples from Ulldemolins are notably scarce, consistent with the village's small population and limited original print run.