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50 Céntimos Mas de Barberans
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mas de Barberans |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1453 |
| Obverse description | Text-based emergency note printed in dark blue, with a double-rule dot border framing the entire face. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears in the upper left corner, beside the issuing authority and denomination text arranged in structured letterpress typography across the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain blank reverse bearing a violet oval municipal validation stamp applied by hand, serving as the sole authenticating device on this emergency issue. |
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Mas de Barberans is a small municipality in the Montsià comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican councils during 1936–37, it issued its own emergency fractional currency — the moneda local — to address the acute shortage of metallic coinage that followed the disruption of normal banking after the July 1936 coup. The Republican government formally authorized municipal issues under a decree of late 1936, which legitimized what many councils were already doing informally.
Turró catalogues well over a thousand such issues. Most small-town emissions were produced in tiny runs, sometimes on whatever card stock was locally available, and Mas de Barberans was no exception.