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0.50 Pesetas Mollerussa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Mollerussa (Municipality of Mollerussa) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting plain cream-toned card stock with a faint laid texture visible across the surface. A circular municipal stamp impression, partially legible, appears towards the centre of the field, applied in violet ink as the sole authenticating mark. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Mollerussa is a small agricultural town in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, and this note belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of locally-issued emergency paper money produced across Catalonia and the rest of Republican-held Spain from 1936 onward. With the outbreak of the Civil War, the hoarding of metal coinage drained small change from circulation almost immediately, and hundreds of municipalities — many of them tiny — were forced to print their own fractional substitutes.
The Turró catalogue remains the authoritative reference for this material, documenting over a thousand distinct local issuers. An official stamp served as the primary authentication device, which also means that unstamped examples, whether printer's remainders or incomplete issues, do exist and should be distinguished carefully.