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50 Céntimos '2 Rals' Besora
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Santa Maria de Besora |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | DOS RALS S : 2 : Val sol a Besora (Translation: Two Reales Series 2: Valid only in Besora) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise blank save for a single black oval rubber stamp of the issuing municipal authority, applied at centre. The impression carries the full name of the issuing body in capital letters around its perimeter and constitutes the sole design element on this face. |
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Santa Maria de Besora is a municipality in the comarca of Osona, Catalunya, with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred — which makes the existence of a locally issued fractional note here entirely typical of the Spanish Civil War period. From 1936 onward, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small coinage as silver and copper disappeared from circulation almost immediately after the July uprising. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own paper fractions to keep local commerce moving, authorized under a framework that was more improvised than regulated.
The "2 Rals" designation is a folk-currency survival. The real had been officially dead for decades, but rural Catalonia never fully abandoned the old accounting unit in everyday speech.