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50 Céntimos Pobla de Mafumet
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Pobla de Mafumet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Orange repetitive geometric guilloche underprint covers the entire field, over which black letterpress text is arranged in horizontal registers. The denomination CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS is set in large bold capitals at centre, flanked above by the issuing authority legend and bearer clause, and below by the place and date of issue. A violet oval municipal seal stamp is applied at centre, and the printer's imprint TIP. DE A. VENTURA appears at lower right. Serial number in manuscript at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL La caixa municipal pagarà al portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Pobla de Mafumet 22 de Febrer del 1937. El President, P.A. del C.M., El Secretari, POBLA DE MAFUMET Pagarè de curs obligatori en tot el terme municipal TIP. DE A. VENTURA (Translation: Municipal Council The municipal treasury will pay the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimes Pobla de Mafumet 22 February 1937. The President, P.A. of the M.C., The Secretary, POBLA DE MAFUMET Compulsory legal tender promissory note throughout the municipal district) |
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Pobla de Mafumet is a village of a few hundred inhabitants a handful of kilometers northwest of Tarragona. Like dozens of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, the local council issued small-denomination paper when coin shortages became acute after 1936 — the Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning fractional coinage pushed the problem down to the smallest administrative units imaginable. Tipografía A. Ventura in Tarragona handled several of these local emergency emissions across the province, producing functional if modest work under wartime constraints.
The Turró catalogue documents this as a single emission with no known varieties.