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50 Céntimos Barbens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Barbens (Municipality of Barbens) |
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| Size | 62 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse description | Small-format emergency issue printed in black letterpress with a green geometric underprint. A linear border frames the entire face, within which the obligation text and denomination are set. The overall design is typographic in character, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`AJUNTAMENT DE BARBENS PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR 50 CENTIMS (D`ÚS FORÇÓS A BARBENS) (Translation: The City Council of Barbens Will pay the bearer 50 Centimos Mandatory use in Barbens) |
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Barbens is a small municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. Like hundreds of similarly tiny Catalan and Spanish municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War years when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone.
Imprenta Popular in nearby Bellpuig produced notes for several surrounding municipalities, which accounts for the family resemblance collectors often notice across different Turró-catalogued local issues from this part of Lleida province. The 50 céntimos denomination was among the most-needed in daily transactions, and survival rates for these tiny municipally-issued pieces are low — they were used hard and discarded once the crisis passed.