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50 Céntimos Marçà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Marçà |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the coat of arms of Catalonia as a central vignette set within a floral border, with the issuer name underlined at the top. The entire face is enclosed within a geometric guilloche frame typical of Catalan wartime emergency issues. Denomination and date of issue appear in letterpress alongside the authorizing text. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on pale yellow-green paper with a light guilloche underprint across the entire field. The issuer name appears in bold letterpress at the top, underlined by a double rule, with the denomination in figures at the lower left and a serial number at centre. A decorative ornament and series letter designation occupy the lower right, all enclosed within a geometric guilloche border. |
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Marçà is a village in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. That a municipal council this small was issuing its own fractional currency in 1937 reflects how completely the Republican monetary system had fragmented — the withdrawal and hoarding of metallic coin created a vacuum that hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments filled by commissioning their own paper emergency issues, each valid only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona printed for numerous local councils across the province during this period, which makes attribution straightforward but also means production quality and paper stock vary considerably across the run.