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50 Céntimos Masquefa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Masquefa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1475 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MASQUEFA VAL 50 CENTIMS Acordat en sessió del dia 1.er de juliol del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Masquefa It is worth 50 Centimos Agreed in session on July 1, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Cts. (Translation: 50 Centimos) |
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Masquefa is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly modest towns, it issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation in mid-1936. These local vales — authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework for municipal emergency issues — were purely utilitarian stop-gaps, printed in tiny quantities for purely local use. Many never survived the war's end.
Turró catalogues this issue, but surviving examples are genuinely uncommon, as Masquefa's wartime population was small and redemption rates after 1939 were low under the Franco administration.