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50 Céntimos Reus
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Reus |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue by letterpress in the style of an architectural portico frame, the obverse presents an oval medallion to the left enclosing a portrait vignette of physician and philosopher Pere Mata i Fontanet. The central field carries the issuing authority's text and payment obligation in Catalan, with the date of issue incorporated within the body of the legend. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is organized around a central oval medallion enclosing a rose, the traditional heraldic emblem of the city of Reus. Surrounding allegorical figures reference the themes of labour, commerce, industry and learning, rendered through a worker with a mallet, female figures bearing a caduceus and a book, and a background of industrial factories with smoking chimneys. |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation forced local councils to print their own scrip. Reus, an industrial town in the Camp de Tarragona, had sufficient local printing capacity to produce its own series rather than rely on shared regional issues — Imprenta De Ferrando was a local commercial press, pressed into this particular service by necessity rather than specialization in security printing.
Turró catalogs an enormous number of these Catalan local issues, and the 50 céntimos from Reus is among the more common survivors, though most circulated hard and briefly before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.