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50 Céntimos Masquefa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Masquefa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with reddish-brown letterpress text arranged within a geometric border frame, printed over a green underprint. The face carries the full legislative text of issue in Catalan, including denomination, guaranty clause, territorial validity, and the authorising session date. The overall design is purely typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MASQUEFA VAL CINQUANTA CENTIMS GARANTITS PER PAPER DE CURS LEGAL De curs obligatori en tot el terme municipal de Masquefa Emissió acordada per l`Ajuntament en sessió del dia 15 d`abril del 1937. Masquefa, 20 abril 1937. (Translation: City Council of Masquefa It is worth Fifty Centimos Guaranteed by legal current paper Compulsory course throughout the Masquefa municipality Issue agreed by the City Council in session on April 15, 1937. Masquefa, April 20, 1937.) |
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Masquefa is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency scrip during the Civil War after the Republic's central monetary system fractured and small coin essentially vanished from everyday transactions. These local emissions — generically called "moneda de cartró" or paper-and-cardboard emergency currency — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's 1937 decree, which gave municipal councils the legal cover to fill the gap.
Turró catalogues this emission but notes it is among the less frequently encountered Anoia municipal issues. Small run, small town.