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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 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 | A central oval medallion contains a rose, the civic emblem of Reus, surrounded by allegorical figures representing labour, commerce, industry, and study — including a worker with a mallet, female figures bearing a caduceus and a book, and a factory background with smoking chimneys. The denomination and mandatory circulation clause are inscribed within the border. |
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Reus issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War because Republican Spain's central banking system had effectively collapsed at the local level by 1937 — coin disappeared from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted, and municipalities across Catalonia were left to fill the gap themselves. The Consell Municipal de Reus was one of dozens of Catalan local authorities that responded with officially sanctioned paper fractions, printed on whatever presses were available.
Ferrando was a local commercial printer, not a security specialist. These notes were never difficult to reproduce, and their authority rested entirely on local trust rather than technical deterrence.