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50 Céntimos Batea
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Batea (Municipality of Batea) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CÉNTIMS Segona emissió Número AJUNTAMENT de BATEA Val cinquanta cts. (Translation: 50 Centimos / Second issue / Number / City Council of Batea / Voucher fifty centimos) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Batea is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local government issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coins vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya eventually tried to regulate this flood of local paper, but enforcement was patchy, and small municipalities like Batea largely did their own thing.
Turró's cataloguing of these Catalan municipal issues remains the definitive reference, and Batea's 50 céntimos is among the more obscure entries — the town's total wartime population was under two thousand, so production runs were small and survival rates are correspondingly low.