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50 Céntimos Pira
| Issuer | Municipi de Pira |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on light green card stock with perforated edges, the obverse carries the issuer name 'Municipi de PIRA' in dark olive letterpress at the top, underlined by a horizontal rule. A large circular violet official municipality stamp is applied over a central vignette of a grain sheaf, with the denomination 'VAL 50 cèntims' printed in bold dark type below the rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | Municipi de PIRA VAL 50 cèntims (Translation: Municipality of Pira / Value / 50 Centimos) |
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Pira is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish Republican townships, it issued its own emergency small-change notes during the Civil War years of 1936–1939 when metallic coin effectively vanished from everyday circulation. These hyper-local emissions — collectively called *moneda de necessitat* or "necessity money" — were produced under wildly inconsistent conditions, often by local printers with no specialist currency experience, which accounts for the crude production quality seen across the series.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for this material, and the 1846 assignment places this firmly within the documented Pira emission.