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50 Céntimos Corbera de Terra Alta
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Corbera de Terra Alta |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 55 × 31 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in reddish-brown ink on cream card stock, with a double-rule rectangular border flanked by bold vertical bars at left and right. The face value 'VAL 50 CTS.' is set in large bold type at centre, with 'Consell Municipal' inscribed across the upper field and 'CORBERA DE TERRA ALTA' along the lower field. Two solid triangular ornaments appear as decorative devices, one in the upper-right area and one at lower-left flanking the issuer name. |
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| Reverse description | Plain card stock reverse printed in black ink, bearing the face value '50 CENTIMS' in bold type at upper left, with a handwritten or rubber-stamped serial number in the lower portion of the field. A faint violet stamp impression is visible at centre-right, likely an authorisation or control mark. |
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Corbera de Terra Alta sits in the Tarragona province and became one of the most devastated municipalities of the Civil War — the town was almost entirely destroyed during the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, and the ruins of the old village were left standing as a war memorial. This note predates that destruction by roughly a year, issued when the Republican-controlled Consell Municipal was still functioning and the broader Catalan local currency emergency was in full force.
The emission belongs to the enormous wave of Spanish Civil War municipal fractional notes, driven by a near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation after 1936. Turró catalogues thousands of such issues; this one from a small Tarragona municipality is among the more obscure.