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50 Céntimos Bassella
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Bacella |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BACELLA Bon de 50 cèntims de circulació obligatòria per tot aquest terme municipal, i garantit pel Consell municipal en virtut d'acord del mateix de data 27 de maig darrer. Bacella, 1.er de juny del 1937. El Caixer, El Secretari-Interventor, (Translation: Municipal Council of Bacella / Bond of 50 Centimos of mandatory circulation throughout this municipal district, guaranteed by the Municipal Council by virtue of its resolution of 27 May last. Bacella, 1 June 1937. The Cashier, The Secretary-Comptroller,) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 cèntims 50 (Translation: 50 / 50 Centimos / 50) |
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Bassella is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Lleida, and this 50 céntimos note is among the hundreds of emergency local issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War. The national coinage shortage — driven by hoarding, metal requisitions for the war effort, and the collapse of normal supply chains — forced municipalities down to village level to print their own fractional currency. Most were never intended to circulate beyond the issuing town's borders.
Turró's catalog documents over 1,400 such issues. The thick card stock was a practical choice: municipalities had no access to security printing infrastructure, so physical weight substituted for sophistication.