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50 Céntimos La Cava
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Cava (Municipality of La Cava) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on a background of brown geometric underprint with a decorative guilloche-style perimeter frame. The central text block carries the issuing authority, promise-to-pay clause, denomination, and date of issue in Catalan. The overall layout is typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress text within a geometric perimeter frame matching the obverse, with a brown geometric underprint throughout. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears to the left of the central text, which states the issuing authority, denomination, and series designation in Catalan. |
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La Cava is a small settlement in the Baix Ebre comarca of Catalonia, and by 1937 even municipalities of this size were issuing their own emergency fractional currency — the Republican government's wartime decree authorizing local paper money had effectively collapsed the distinction between a town and a bank. Hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments printed notes that never circulated beyond a few kilometers, and most were redeemed, destroyed, or simply abandoned before the war ended.
Turró catalogues this as #791, placing it deep in a series of deeply provincial emissions. Surviving examples are scarce simply because so few were printed to begin with.