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50 Céntimos La Manresana
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Manresana (Municipality of La Manresana) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock with all text applied by letterpress in black ink. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT DE LA MANRESANA appears in bold serif capitals within a double-ruled rectangular frame at the top. Below, the denomination legend TIQUET VALEDER PER is set in a smaller face, with 50 CENTIMS in large bold capitals flanked by horizontal rules on either side. A handwritten serial number preceded by the printed abbreviation Núm. appears at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream stock bearing multiple handwritten ink inscriptions across the upper portion, including what appear to be accounting notations with numerical references. A circular municipal dry stamp is impressed in the lower centre, partially legible, accompanied by additional handwritten signatures or authorisation lines. The overall layout is entirely manuscript with no printed design elements. |
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La Manresana is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Anoia, Catalonia — population in the hundreds — and its decision to issue emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War places it among the smallest issuing authorities in what was already one of the most atomized monetary episodes in modern European history. With the peseta system fragmenting after July 1936, hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own change, filling the void left by hoarded coin.
Grafos was a collectivized print shop operating in Barcelona under anarcho-syndicalist CNT-FAI control during the war years, which makes the printer itself a political artifact. Turró catalogs this as #1425 — deep into a list that runs to well over a thousand entries just for Catalonia alone.