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50 Centimos Masó; Sindicat Agrícol i Caixa Rural
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícol i Caixa Rural de Masó |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green cardboard voucher with no vignette or decorative underprint. Four lines of black letterpress text are centered on the face, stating the issuing institution, locality, and denomination value. The austere typographic layout is characteristic of wartime emergency issues produced without specialist printing equipment. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light green cardboard reverse, unprinted save for a circular violet rubber stamp with scalloped outer border applied at center. The stamp carries the municipal authority legend around the inner ring with "PROVEÏMENTS" across the middle, and "MASÓ" at the base. A handwritten serial number in blue ink appears within the stamp field. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic collapse in small-denomination coinage — hoarding, melting, and general monetary chaos left towns and villages unable to make change for everyday transactions. Hundreds of local authorities, cooperatives, and agricultural syndicates across Catalonia responded by printing their own emergency paper, known collectively as moneda local or paper moneda. The Sindicat Agrícol i Caixa Rural de Masó was one of the smaller issuers, serving the village of Masó in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province.
The square format is unusual even within this already irregular series — most Catalan emergency notes of the period were rectangular. At 42 x 42 mm it is among the smallest issues in the AL catalogue.