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50 Céntimos Mediona
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mediona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, bearing a circular red ink municipal stamp at right with a coat of arms vignette at centre. A handwritten serial number appears at left. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL - MEDIONA (Translation: Constitutional City Council - Mediona) |
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Mediona is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937. These hyper-local emissions were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework for municipal money, but the practical execution — paper quality, printing method, quantities — was left entirely to each ajuntament. Mediona's issue reflects that improvisation directly: thick card stock was a common local substitute when proper banknote paper was unavailable.
Turró catalogued over 2,000 distinct Spanish Civil War municipal issues; Mediona's 50 Céntimos at #1492 is well into the long tail of minor emissions, suggesting limited surviving quantities.