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0.50 Pesetas Botarell
| Issuer | Botarell, Municipality of |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper ground with typewritten violet-blue letterpress text arranged in three horizontal lines across the upper and central portions of the note, stating the issuing municipal council and the face value in Catalan. Below, two manuscript signatures in black ink appear beneath their respective role designations — 'Conseller 1º' at left and 'Scri' (Secretary) at right — both rendered in bold cursive. Series and serial number are typeset in violet at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell M. Botarell VAL 0`50 pessetes Conseller 1º Scri Série 1ª Nº (Translation: Municipal Council Botarell It's worth 0.50 Pesetas 1st Councilor Secretary Series 1 No.) |
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Botarell is a small municipality in Baix Camp, Tarragona, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. Like hundreds of other Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by wartime demand. These municipal notes, collectively catalogued under the Turró reference system, were legal only within the issuing locality and had no standing anywhere else.
Turró 518 is among the more obscure entries in the Catalan municipal series. Documentation on the precise emission date and surviving population is thin.