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50 Céntimos Reus
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Reus |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue, the note is framed within an architectural portico border. To the left, an oval medallion contains a portrait vignette of the Catalan historian Pròsper de Bofarull i Mascaró. The face bears the issuing authority's legend, denomination, and issuance date in Catalan. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE REUS 50 CÈNTIMS BITLLET DE CIRCULACIÓ OBLIGATORIA EN TOTA LA JURISDICCIÓ MUNICIPAL (Translation: Municipal Council of Reus 50 Centimos Mandatory circulation banknote in all the Municipal Jurisdiction) |
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Reus was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued its own fractional currency during the Civil War after the collapse of small-coin circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning supply of low-denomination coinage pushed the burden onto local councils, which improvised as best they could with whatever printing infrastructure existed in their town. Ferrando's press was a local commercial printer, not a security printing house — no intaglio, no special papers, no anti-counterfeiting measures worth noting.
Turró catalogued over 2,000 distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. That numbering alone suggests how fragmented emergency currency production had become by 1937.