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50 Céntimos Constantí
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Constantí |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#865 |
| Obverse description | Plain ground with a central oval vignette of the four-bar Catalan coat of arms rendered in vertical stripe underprint. The issuer's name arcs across the upper portion in bold letterpress, with the denomination spelled out in full in large capitals at centre. Date of issue appears below in cursive script, with three manuscript signatures and their respective role titles at the foot: L'Alcalde President, El Dipositari, and L'Interventor. The entire design is enclosed within a single rectangular border, all printed in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CÉNTIMS GARANTIA CANVI INTERIOR Emissió feta per acord de aquest Consell en sessió del 15 d`Abril del 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos Interior change guarantee Issued by agreement of this Council in session of April 15, 1937) |
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Constantí is a small municipality a few kilometers north of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when coin shortages became acute in 1937. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues, which is why so many exist — each town effectively printing its own small change.
Turró catalogues this as #865. The series from Constantí is obscure enough that documented circulation examples are genuinely rare, the town's population having been small even then.