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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 lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE REUS LA DIPOSITARIA MUNICIPAL PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE 50 CENTIMS Reus 14 d'Abril del 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Reus The Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos Reus, April 14, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Executed in dark blue letterpress matching the obverse, the reverse is centred on an oval vignette containing the rose, the heraldic emblem of Reus, surrounded by allegorical figures representing labour, commerce, industry and learning — including a worker with a mallet, female figures bearing a caduceus and a book, with factory buildings and smoking chimneys in the background. Surrounding text establishes the note's mandatory circulation throughout the entire municipal jurisdiction. |
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One of hundreds of local emergency notes — known collectively as "moneda de necessitat" — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after the collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate fractional currency left town councils scrambling to fill the gap themselves, often contracting whatever local printer was available. In Reus, that was the Imprenta De Ferrando.
Turró catalogues this as #2076, placing it firmly within the documented Reus municipal series, which ran across multiple denominations throughout 1937.