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50 Céntimos Pobla de Masaluca
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Pobla de Masaluca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 106 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue on cream paper, with a decorative border of dots and squares forming a stepped corner pattern around the entire perimeter. The denomination '50 Cèntims' appears in bold at the upper left, with the serial number below preceded by 'NÚM.' and the date 'MARÇ 1937' beneath; the right field carries the issuing authority's name and the bearer obligation text in capital letters, with the amount written out in large italic script as 'Cinquanta Cèntims'. A circular violet official stamp of the Consell Municipal is applied to the centre of the note, accompanied by a handwritten signature of the Cap del Consell Municipal, and the printer's imprint 'Imp. BASSA.-Mora d'Ebre-Telèf. 36' appears along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Cèntims NÚM. MARC 1937 EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE POBLA DE MASALUCA RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE Cinquanta Cèntims El Cap del Consell Municipal, Imp. BASSA.-Mora d'Ebre-Telèf. 36 (Translation: 50 Centimos / No. / March 1937 / The Municipal Council of Pobla de Masaluca recognizes in favour of the bearer the amount of / Fifty Centimos / The Head of the Municipal Council,) |
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Pobla de Masaluca is a tiny village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and its wartime issue of local fractional currency reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain during 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized municipal councils to print their own emergency notes — *moneda de paper local* — precisely because the central government could not supply enough coin to keep local commerce functional. Hundreds of municipalities did exactly this, most using whatever printer was nearest.
Imprenta Bassa in Mora d'Ebre served several Terra Alta municipalities during this period, which gives the series a recognizable regional character among specialists of Civil War ephemera.