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50 Céntimos Móra la Nova
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Móra la Nova (Municipality of Móra la Nova) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MORA LA NOVA 50 Ctms. (Translation: City Council of Mora la Nova 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette in brown on an orange ground shows a male worker in profile, his left arm resting on a large cogwheel while a sheaf of wheat ears fans out to his left, combining symbols of industry and agriculture in a bold woodcut-style illustration. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large figures to the left and right of the central vignette, each accompanied by the abbreviation 'Ctms.' A hand-written serial number appears in the upper right corner, and the printer's imprint 'GRAFOS, COL·LECTIVITZADA' is inscribed in the lower right margin. |
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Móra la Nova is a small Tarragona province municipality whose wartime scrip emerged from the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage during the Spanish Civil War. By mid-1937, Republican-held towns across Catalonia were printing their own emergency paper to keep local commerce moving — the Generalitat had authorized this patchwork system, however reluctantly, because the alternative was economic paralysis at the village level.
Grafos, operating as a collectivized enterprise in Barcelona by this point, handled an enormous volume of these municipal issues. The Turró census documents over 1,600 catalogue numbers for Catalan Civil War scrip alone.