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50 Céntimos La Fatarella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Fatarella (Municipality of La Fatarella) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with the four-bar Catalan coat of arms (Senyera) as a vignette to the left, flanked by an olive tree vignette extending across the lower portion of the note. The denomination '50 cts.' appears in large numerals at both the upper right and lower left, with the issuing authority's name and full authorization text arranged in letterpress across the center field. Three manuscript signatures with their respective title headings appear in the lower portion, along with the printer's imprint at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQUANTA CENTIMS 50 cts. BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: Fifty Centimos 50 Centimos Mandatory Local Currency Banknote) |
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La Fatarella is a small village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when Republican Spain's small-change supply collapsed under wartime pressure. The Consell Municipal authorized these notes locally, but production was centralized through Barcelona printers serving dozens of similar commissions simultaneously — El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of this emergency municipal work.
Turró catalogs over 1,700 distinct Spanish Civil War local issues; La Fatarella's 50 céntimos at #998 sits firmly in the middle of that mass of wartime necessity printing.