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50 Céntimos Rasquera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Rasquera |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress text in black on grey-blue card stock, entirely without vignette or ornamental underprint. The denomination '50 cèntims' appears at upper left, with 'AJUNTAMENT de RASQUERA' across the upper right in bold serif type. A value declaration 'Val Cinquanta Cèntims' is set in large blackletter script across the centre, with 'El Tresorer,' in smaller italic type below right. A hand-stamped serial number under the legend 'Número' occupies the lower left, framed by a ruled panel. |
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| Reverse description | Plain grey-blue card stock bearing a large oval municipal stamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp carries the legend 'AJUNTAMENT RASQUERA' around the perimeter, flanked by decorative rosette ornaments, and encloses a vignette of a stone arch or bridge with a tree at its side, representing the municipal coat of arms of Rasquera. |
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Rasquera is a tiny municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coinage simply vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or requisitioned. These local ajuntament issues were authorized under Republican decree but produced entirely at the municipal level, which accounts for the extreme variation in paper quality, printing method, and format across the series.
Turró catalogs this as #2067. The official stamp is the sole security measure — common for issues of this type and period, and easily forged, though forgery of such hyper-local scrip was rarely worth the effort.