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50 Céntimos Biosca
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Biosca (Municipality of Biosca) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#440 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink on plain paper, enclosed within a rectangular red border. The issuer's name 'Ajuntament de Biosca' appears at the top in bold lettering, below which a small vignette of a running dog is visible at centre-left alongside a circular official municipal stamp. The denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' is set in large type at centre, with the issue date and two manuscript signatures of the Alcalde and the Interventor below. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse, showing only the natural texture of the stock with no design, text, or ornamentation. |
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Biosca is a tiny municipality in the Segarra comarca of Catalonia — population well under a thousand even today. During the Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation pushed hundreds of Spanish municipalities, including the most obscure, into issuing their own emergency paper fractional currency. These local emergency issues, collectively catalogued under the term *paper moneda*, number in the thousands of varieties across Catalonia alone.
Turró 440 places this squarely within that wartime municipal series. Given Biosca's size, surviving quantities are typically low — small communes printed small runs, and much was never redeemed after Franco's monetary consolidation rendered the issues worthless.