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50 Céntimos Cabra del Camp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Cabra del Camp |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Cabra del Camp La Dipositaria Municipal pagarà al portador 50 CÈNTIMS Cabra del Camp Agost del 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Cabra del Camp The Municipal Depository will pay the bearer 50 Centimos Cabra del Camp August, 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for an all-over green geometric guilloche underprint, composed of repeating horizontal bands of interlocking chain and foliate motifs, giving the note a decorative yet simple appearance consistent with wartime emergency municipal issues. |
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Cabra del Camp is a small municipalitat in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, with a population that barely reached a thousand during the Civil War years. Like dozens of similarly sized Catalan towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the hoarding of metallic coin created a near-total breakdown in small-change commerce across the Republican zone. The Consell Municipal — effectively the local administrative authority under the wartime anarcho-syndicalist and Republican coalition — authorized these notes as a purely local stopgap.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled production for a number of these small municipal issues from the surrounding comarca, which gives the series a recognizable regional consistency in paper stock and typographic execution. Turró catalogs this as #553.