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50 Céntimos Maspujols
| Issuer | Maspujols, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Stark typographic reverse with a scalloped or dotted decorative border running along all four edges. The series designation is printed at the top centre, with the serial number and an asterisk mark positioned in the central field. A circular official stamp of the Ajuntament Republicà de Maspujols, incorporating a vignette of a building, is impressed on the left side. |
| Reverse lettering | SÈRIE B. (serial number) |
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Maspujols is a tiny municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and other Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when coin virtually disappeared from circulation in 1936–37. These locally produced notes — often called *moneda local* or *bitllets locals* — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework but designed, printed, and guaranteed entirely by the issuing municipality, which meant quality and redemption reliability varied enormously from town to town.
Maspujols had a population of only a few hundred at the time. The practical circulation of this note would have been extremely limited geographically.