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50 Céntimos Cornudella de Montsant
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Cornudella de Montsant |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 105 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pink-violet on cream paper and centres on a typographic vignette of an ornate wicker basket overflowing with flowers and foliage, flanked at the base by floral rosette sprigs. The serial number appears twice in green letterpress, reading vertically on both the left and right margins. |
| Reverse lettering | No 02015 |
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Cornudella de Montsant is a small Priorat wine village — population well under a thousand in 1937 — and its municipal council issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that followed the Republican government's loss of control over metallic coin circulation in the early Civil War period. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities did the same, flooding the zone with locally produced paper fraccions that technically had no validity beyond their own township limits.
The Turró catalogue remains the authoritative reference for these Catalan guerra civil emissions, and Cornudella's series is among the more obscure entries — a reflection of both small print runs and low survival rates from such a minor issuing authority.