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50 Céntimos Horta de Terra Alta
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Horta de Terra Alta |
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| Size | 64 × 44 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in red letterpress. A rhombus-pattern border frames the entire face, with a second inner dashed-rule border reinforcing the layout. The issuer's name is set in two lines of bold capital letters in the upper half, separated by a short ornamental rule, while the denomination "VAL 50 CTS." is displayed in the lower half with the numeral "50" in a noticeably larger typeface. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE HORTA DE TERRA ALTA VAL 50 CTS. (Translation: Municipal Council of Horta de Terra Alta Voucher 50 Centimos) |
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Horta de Terra Alta is a small municipality in the Tarragona province of Catalonia, and this 50 céntimos note is one of the thousands of locally issued emergency fractional notes — moneda de paper — produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1936. The Consell Municipal, functioning as both local government and de facto monetary authority under wartime decentralization, printed its own scrip rather than wait for Republican central supplies that rarely arrived in adequate quantities for rural communities.
The thick card stock was a deliberate practical choice, not a printing luxury — thinner paper disintegrated too quickly in daily use.