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50 Céntimos Prades
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Prades |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PRADES El portador acredita d'aquest Consell 50 CÈNTIMS Prades, 1.er de desembre del 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Prades The bearer credits this Council with 50 Centimos Prades, December 1, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress text within an ornamental rectangular border mirroring the obverse framing. A vignette of the natural cave located on the outskirts of the town, near the hermitage of Abellera, occupies the central background. The denomination is rendered in large characters as the dominant inscription. |
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Prades is a small hill town in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities it resorted to issuing its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War after metallic coinage essentially vanished from circulation in Republican-held territory. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized this wave of local emergency scrip — without it, daily commerce in small transactions would have ground to a halt.
Sugrañes in Tarragona handled a significant volume of these municipal issues across the province, which means quality and consistency vary considerably between commissions. Prades, with a population barely exceeding a thousand, would have ordered a modest print run.