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50 Céntimos Cogul
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cogul (Municipality of Cogul) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff card stock with all text applied by letterpress in dark blue ink. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT DE COGUL is printed in large bold capitals across the upper portion, underlined by a double rule; a solid circular disc device appears to the left of the text. The denomination legend Val per 50 cts. is set in large bold italic type across the lower half, with a hand-stamped serial number along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted buff card stock bearing a single oval municipal validation stamp applied in blue ink at centre, the stamp impression partially legible with abbreviated inscriptions; the reverse is otherwise blank. |
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Cogul is a small municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia — population measured in hundreds, not thousands. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republic's catastrophic shortage of fractional coinage pushed municipalities of almost any size to issue their own emergency paper money, the so-called "bitllets locals." Cogul's 50 céntimos piece is among the more obscure examples of this phenomenon, reflecting just how far down the administrative hierarchy the currency vacuum reached by 1936–37.
Turró 843 is rarely encountered. Small-run municipal emissions from villages of this scale were typically consumed in purely local transactions and rarely survived in quantity.