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50 Céntimos Xerta
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Xerta |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Generalitat de Catalunya Consell Municipal de Xerta CERTIFICAT de 50 cèntims Emissió 1937 No es vàlid sense el segell al dors. (Translation: Generalitat of Catalonia Municipal Council of Xerta Certificate of 50 Centimos Issue 1937 It is not valid without the stamp on the back.) |
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| Protection description | Circular violet municipal handstamp applied to the reverse, bearing the arms of Xerta and the inscription of the Municipal Council; its absence renders the note invalid. |
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Xerta is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of emergency local issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War. With the banking system effectively paralyzed and small coinage hoarded or melted, municipal councils were authorized — or simply took it upon themselves — to print fractional currency to keep local commerce moving. The handstamp served as the primary authenticity control, applied by whoever held the stamp at the ajuntament.
Turró catalogs well over two thousand such issues, and Xerta's are among the more obscure entries.