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50 Céntimos Massanes

Issuer Consell Municipal de Massanes
Year 1937
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Value 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP)
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Reverse lettering 50 CÈNTIMS
(Translation: 50 Centimes)
Signature(s) Camilo Torrent (L'Alcalde) and Luis Borrell (El Dipositari)
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Massanes is a small municipality in the Selva comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency when the Republic's small-change shortage became acute in 1937. These local emissions — collectively known as moneda local de guerra — were authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya and varied wildly in quality and design between issuing bodies. Massanes produced a minimal series; Turró catalogues this 50 céntimos as the town's only recorded emission.

The signatures of the Alcalde and the Dipositari authenticate the note under the municipal structure that governed civilian administration in Republican-held territory at the time.