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50 Céntimos Cabassers
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cabassers (Municipality of Cabassers) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Solé, Tarragona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-orange on cream paper, the note is enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority's name appears in large letterpress type along the top, with the denomination stated in bold to the left and the purpose clause in smaller text to the right. Two handwritten ink signatures appear at the bottom, attributed to the Alcalde and the Dipositari respectively, dated Febrer del 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CABASSERS VAL per 50 cèntims Al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Cabassers, Febrer del 1937. L'ALCALDE, EL DIPOSITARI, (Translation: City Council of Cabassers Voucher for 50 Centimos For the sole purpose of facilitating change Cabassers, February 1937. The Mayor, The Treasurer,) |
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Cabassers is a village in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. That such a small municipality issued its own fractional paper currency speaks directly to the catastrophic breakdown of metallic coinage circulation in Republican Spain during 1937 — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted, and the central government was in no position to supply small change to every Catalan village that needed it. Local councils stepped in by legal necessity, empowered by a June 1937 Generalitat decree authorizing municipal emergency emissions.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a significant volume of these provincial Catalan emergency issues, which is why the printing quality across Turró-catalogued notes from this period is relatively consistent despite the chaotic circumstances of production.