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50 Céntimos Bot
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Bot (Municipality of Bot) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 75 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on light blue card stock, entirely in black ink. The issuer's name 'El Ayuntamiento de Bot' appears in bold display type across the upper portion, flanked at left and lower right by the numeral '50'; below, a formal bearer clause in smaller type leads into the denomination 'Cincuenta Céntimos' set in large decorative script. The lower section carries the mayor's title 'El Alcalde,' a pre-printed serial number field, and the date '25 de Abril de 1937.' |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 El Ayuntamiento de Bot RECONOCE A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR la cantidad de Cincuenta Céntimos El Alcalde, Núm. 25 de Abril de 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Bot Recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos The Mayor, No. April 25, 1937) |
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Bot is a village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, with a population that barely reached 1,000 during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities in the Republican zone, Bot issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 because the withdrawal of silver and copper coinage had left small transactions almost impossible to conduct. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues to fill the gap, but standardization was nonexistent — each town contracted whatever local printer was available.
Josep Bassa's print shop in nearby Mora d'Ebre handled several Terra Alta municipal issues during this period. Turró catalogs this as #512, placing it within a well-documented but numerically vast body of Spanish Civil War local paper.