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50 Céntimos Navàs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Navàs (Municipality of Navàs) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE NAVÀS (Translation: City Council of Navàs) |
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| Protection type | Municipal stamp |
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Navàs is a small industrial town in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the chaotic emergency coinage — moneda local — that proliferated across Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War. The central government's inability to maintain adequate small-change circulation forced hundreds of municipalities to issue their own scrip, authorized under a 1937 decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Turró catalogues over two thousand such issues.
The municipal stamp is the only anti-counterfeiting measure — not an unusual arrangement for notes of this denomination and origin, where production was often handled by local printers with no security printing capability whatsoever.