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0.50 Pesetas Barcheta
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Barcheta |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream ground printed entirely in red by letterpress. A uniform small-square guilloche border frames all four edges. The issuer's name appears in two lines at the top — 'El Consejo Municipal' in large bold type above 'de Barcheta' in smaller roman lettering — followed centrally by the obligation legend 'PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR' and the large-numeral denomination '0'50 Ptas.' at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream stock bearing a large circular violet municipal control stamp at centre, enclosing a heraldic coat of arms vignette and the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' around the circumference. A hand-applied serial number in dark blue ink ('No.' followed by numerals) is printed below the stamp. |
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Barcheta is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, its municipal council issued its own fractional currency after the Republic's small change effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the chaos. These locally produced emergency notes, known as "moneda municipal" or "papel moneda local," were a grassroots fix to a very real transactional problem, and Barcheta's issue is among the more obscure examples catalogued in Gari's reference.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale — paper that thin would disintegrate within days of handling.