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50 Céntimos La Granadella
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de La Granadella |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on pale green card stock with a bold double-rule rectangular border framing the entire face. The upper portion carries the issuer inscription in two lines, separated from the lower denomination panel by a single horizontal rule. The denomination value and a handstamped serial number appear in the lower panel, with the numeral and currency legend printed in large bold type. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale green card stock bearing a large circular official municipal rubber stamp applied in violet ink, with a serrated outer ring and the legend around the circumference. At the centre of the stamp is a vignette of a bunch of grapes with foliage, consistent with the heraldic symbol of La Granadella. |
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La Granadella is a small municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of June 1937 authorised local authorities to produce fractional currency to address the acute shortage of small coins. These municipal emissions — collectively catalogued as "moneda de necessitat" — were produced under wildly variable conditions, and the thicker card stock used here reflects both the printing limitations of a rural town and the practical need for something that could survive repeated handling in a local market economy.
Turró's catalogue remains the authoritative reference for these Catalan municipal issues. The official stamp served as the primary authentication device, a necessity when centralized anti-counterfeiting infrastructure was simply unavailable.