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50 Céntimos Soses
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Soses (Municipality of Soses) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green paper with black letterpress text throughout. The issuer name appears at the top underlined, followed by the purpose inscription in large bold type, with the denomination and a hand-stamped oval municipal seal applied in violet ink at centre. A serial number field is printed to the right of the value line. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank light green paper reverse bearing a large circular violet ink stamp at centre, enclosing a municipal coat of arms with radiating lines. The stamp legend runs around the circumference in two arcs. |
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Soses is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, Catalonia. This note is one of thousands of small-denomination emergency issues — known as "moneda local" or "paper moneda" — produced by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War after the breakdown of normal currency supply in 1936. With metal coinage hoarded or melted, village councils printed their own scrip to keep local commerce moving.
The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for these issues, and Soses entries are scarce enough that surviving examples attract disproportionate collector interest relative to their face value.