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50 Céntimos Horta de Terra Alta
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Horta de Terra Alta |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text printed in dark blue-black letterpress. The issuing authority name appears in the upper half in two lines of bold capital letters, with the conjunction 'de' in a smaller intermediate line; the lower half carries the denomination in a large three-line arrangement reading 'VAL / 50 / CENTIMS'. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or ornamental border. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock, otherwise blank, bearing a circular municipal validation stamp in violet ink applied off-centre. The stamp reads 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE HORTA DE TERRA ALTA' around the perimeter, punctuated by small star devices, serving as the sole authenticating device for the note. |
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Horta de Terra Alta is a small municipality in the Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional emergency currency (moneda de necessitat) to compensate for the near-total disappearance of Republican metallic coin from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized this practice, but standardization was minimal — production methods, materials, and denominations varied from village to village.
At 35 × 30 mm, this is among the smallest paper issues in the entire series. The single security feature is a hand-applied official stamp, which on many surviving Turró-catalogued examples shows significant ink bleed or off-center placement due to improvised stamping conditions.