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50 Céntimos Malla i Miramberc
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Malla i Miramberc (Municipality of Malla i Miramberc) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an elderly peasant leaning on a hoe, set before the Masia el Ricart farmhouse, which served as the municipal town hall during the Spanish Civil War. The composition is rendered in a simple illustrative style characteristic of locally produced Catalan Civil War emergency issues. Surrounding text inscriptions in Catalan confirm the issuing authority and face value. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0'50 PESSETES AJUNTAMENT DE MALLA (Translation: 0.50 Pesetas City Council of Malla) |
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Malla i Miramberc is a tiny municipality in Osona, Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred in the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized local councils to issue their own emergency fractional currency — *moneda local* — to address the acute shortage of small change caused by coin hoarding and monetary disruption. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities did exactly this, producing notes of wildly varying quality and surviving quantity.
For a settlement this small, any surviving example is genuinely rare. The print runs for villages of this size were typically in the low hundreds, and post-war Republican scrip had no redemption value under Franco.