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50 Céntimos El Pla de Cabra
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Pla de Cabra |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 93 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress on cream paper within a single-rule rectangular border. The central vignette presents a partial townscape view of El Pla de Cabra with a paper mill in the foreground, accompanied by the local municipal coat of arms to the left. The surrounding text block carries the full authorizing resolution in Catalan, with the denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' repeated in larger type. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT d`EL PLA DE CABRA Aquest Ajuntament reconeix al portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA cèntims en virtut d`acord del 2 de Setembre El Pla de Cabra 10 de Setembre del 1937 50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: City Council of El Pla de Cabra This City Council recognizes to the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos according to agreement of September 2 El Pla de Cabra, September 10, 1937 50 Centimos) |
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El Pla de Cabra is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and this note is one of hundreds of locally issued paper currencies — known collectively as moneda de paper or "guerra civil" local issues — that proliferated across Republican-controlled Catalonia after the July 1936 military uprising severed normal banking functions. The central government's inability to distribute sufficient coinage pushed hundreds of ajuntaments to print their own fractional scrip, most of it short-lived and printed in very small runs.
Imprenta E. Castells in Valls handled several such commissions for nearby municipalities, which makes sense geographically — Valls sits roughly six kilometers from El Pla de Cabra. Turró catalogued this as #1848, placing it among the better-documented provincial issues, though surviving quantities remain modest.