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50 Céntimos Reus
| Issuer | Reus, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Central oval medallion vignette contains a rose, the heraldic emblem of the city of Reus. Surrounding allegorical figures represent labour, commerce, industry and study, rendered through a worker holding a mallet, female figures with a caduceus and a book, and factory buildings with smoking chimneys in the background. |
| 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 and Spanish municipalities that printed their own fractional currency during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1936. The Republican government's inability to supply small change forced local councils, trade unions, and cooperatives to fill the gap themselves — legally sanctioned under a decree that gave municipalities the right to issue notes up to 1 peseta. Imprenta De Ferrando was a local commercial press, not a security printer, and the limitations of that show in the production.
Turró catalogues this issue with relative scarcity; Reus-issued notes were redeemed or confiscated after Franco's forces took the city in January 1938.