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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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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MAS DE BARBERANS VAL PER 50 Cts. de curs legal a n'aquesta localitat. (Translation: Municipal Council of Mas de Barberans Valid for 50 Centimos legal tender in this locality.) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted card stock in cream-buff tone, the entire surface dominated by a large circular municipal rubber stamp applied in violet ink. The stamp bears a central heraldic vignette surrounded by a double-ring legend, with the date '27 AGO. 1937' hand-stamped in violet at upper right, rotated approximately 90 degrees relative to the note's orientation. |
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Mas de Barberans is a small municipality in the Montsià comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small change effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These local wartime issues, catalogued collectively under the Spanish term moneda local, were authorised under the Generalitat de Catalunya's June 1937 decree giving municipal councils the right to issue notes up to 1 peseta.
Turró 1455 is among the more obscure municipal issues from this period, from a village that today has fewer than 400 inhabitants.