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50 Céntimos Maspujols
| Issuer | Maspujols, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress design with dark typographic text and a simple ruled border frame. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears in the upper left corner, accompanied by the issuing authority and denomination inscriptions in Catalan. The overall layout is austere, consistent with wartime municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Maspujols VAL per 50 cèntims Al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Validesa durant l`any 1937 (Translation: City Council of Maspujols Valid for 50 Centimos For the sole purpose of facilitating change Validity during the year 1937) |
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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.