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50 Céntimos Gandesa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Gandesa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on orange card stock, enclosed within a floral ornamental border running the full perimeter. The central text block carries the denomination figures '50' at left and right flanking the issuing authority's declaration, with the value repeated in full words and the issuance date indicated as June 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CENTIMS 50 El Consell Municipal de Gandesa reconeix a favor del portador, la quantitat de Cinquanta Cèntims Juny de l'any 1937 (Translation: 50 Centims 50 The Municipal Council of Gandesa recognizes in favor of the bearer, the amount of Fifty Centims June 1937) |
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Gandesa sits in Terra Alta, the remote Catalan comarca that would become the epicenter of the Battle of the Ebro in 1938 — the longest and bloodiest engagement of the Civil War. This note predates that catastrophe by roughly a year, issued when the Republican municipal council still functioned and the chronic shortage of small coinage forced hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments to print their own emergency scrip.
Josep Bassa's press in nearby Mora d'Ebre printed for several Terra Alta municipalities during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance between issues from the area. Turró catalogs this as #1082.