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50 Céntimos Pauls
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pauls (Municipality of Pauls) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise blank, bearing only a hand-applied oval municipal stamp in red ink, slightly off-center, enclosing a coat of arms vignette with circular inscription identifying the issuing authority. The plain paper background and the use of a rubber validation stamp rather than printed design are characteristic of urgency-issue local currency from the Spanish Civil War period. |
| Reverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO CONSTITUCIONAL DE PAULS (Translation: Constitutional City Council of Pauls) |
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Pauls is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin disappeared from circulation entirely. The hoarding of metal — copper included — was acute by mid-1937, and municipal councils were effectively authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya to print local substitutes.
Turró catalogues this as #1794, placing it within the enormous mass of Guerra Civil municipal issues, most of which had negligible print runs and an even shorter useful life. Few left their home villages.