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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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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on a green underprint, the obverse bears the full text of the municipal warrant in Catalan, with the issuer name underlined by double horizontal rules. The denomination is stated in words within the body of the text, and the note is dated 15 May 1937 at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Mediona Aquest Consell reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Mediona, 15 de maig del 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Mediona This Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos Mediona, May 15, 1937.) |
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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.