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50 Céntimos Capafonts
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Capafonts |
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| Size | 93 × 49 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CAPAFONTS LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 50 CÉNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Capafonts The Municipal Fund will pay the bearer 50 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 / 50 50 CENTIMS (Translation: 50 Centimos) |
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Capafonts is a village in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s — which makes the existence of a municipal paper issue here less surprising than it sounds. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage almost immediately after July 1936, prompting thousands of municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions across Catalonia to print their own emergency paper. The Generalitat eventually tried to regulate and then suppress these issues, but local need outpaced bureaucratic control throughout the conflict.
Turró catalogues this as #648, placing it within a well-documented Catalan municipal series, though surviving examples from the smallest villages like Capafonts tend to be genuinely scarce — low original print runs and wartime destruction account for most of the attrition.