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50 Céntimos Garcia
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Vila de Garcia (Municipal Council of Garcia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in pumpkin (orange-tan) ink, with the municipal coat of arms — a vignette incorporating a bird amid branches — positioned in the upper left corner. The face carries the full text of the obligation in Catalan, stating the denomination, issuing authority, date of issue, and mandatory circulation decree, arranged in a plain typeset layout characteristic of wartime emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA VILA DE GARCIA (Translation: City Council of the town of Garcia) |
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Garcia is a small municipality in the Ribera d'Ebre comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper fractional currency when Republican-zone silver and copper coins disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized municipal issues, but left design, printing, and control entirely to individual ayuntamientos — which is why these notes vary so wildly in quality and why many were produced by local printers with no specialized banknote experience.
Turró catalogues this as #1088, one of the scarcer rural Catalan municipals. Small-population towns like Garcia issued in limited quantities and redemption after the war was effectively nil, leaving survivors almost entirely in collector hands rather than in any institutional archive.