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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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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette bearing the municipal coat of arms of Gandesa, consisting of a quartered shield with vertical stripes and a hand motif, topped by a mural crown and flanked by laurel branches tied with a ribbon at the base. A scrolling banner encircles the arms carrying the civic motto, all set within an elaborate guilloche border printed in violet. The denomination numerals '50' and 'CENTIMS' appear in bold letterpress to the left and right of the central vignette, with a red serial number in the lower left corner. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LA CIUTAT DE GANDESA 50 CENTIMS MOLT LLEIAL, HEROICA I INMORTAL (Translation: Municipal Council of the City of Gandesa 50 Centimos Very loyal, heroic and immortal) |
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Gandesa is a small town in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican municipalities in 1937, it issued its own emergency fractional paper currency when the central government's coinage supply collapsed under the pressures of the Civil War. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local councils to fill the gap, producing a chaotic but historically dense field of wartime scrip — over a thousand distinct municipal issues are documented for Catalonia alone.
The Battle of the Ebro, fought in large part around Gandesa in 1938, destroyed much of the town. Notes from this issue that survived did so largely outside the region.