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50 Céntimos Ascó
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Ascó |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 88 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed text on light grey cardboard stock. The denomination '50 CENTIMS' appears in large bold type at the upper left, with the issuing authority 'El Consell Municipal d'Ascó' and the promise-to-pay text in smaller type across the upper and centre fields. The value in words 'Cinquanta Céntims' is set in a large cursive script across the centre, below which appears the signature line 'El Cap del Consell Municipal' at lower left. A circular municipal stamp in violet ink is impressed at centre-left, with the serial number and date 'Juliol - Any 1937' at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CENTIMS El Consell Municipal d'Ascó reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de Cinquanta Céntims El Cap del Consell Municipal Nº Juliol - Any 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos / The Municipal Council of Ascó recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of / Fifty Centimos / The Head of the Municipal Council / No. / July - Year 1937) |
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Ascó is a small town in the Ribera d'Ebre comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its council issued fractional paper currency to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. Republican-zone hoarding and requisitioning had gutted the small change supply by mid-1937, forcing local authorities to print their own emergency scrip — locally called "moneda local" or simply "paper de guerra."
Turró catalogues these Ascó emissions as genuinely scarce; small-town issues rarely survived in quantity because redemption after the war was unreliable and most were simply discarded or destroyed.