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0.50 Pesetas La Portellada
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Portellada |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted card stock bearing a single red oval rubber stamp applied as the sole authenticating device, with the issuing authority's name arranged around the perimeter of the oval and the locality name centred within. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL LA PORTELLADA (Teruel) (Translation: Municipal Council La Portellada (Teruel)) |
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La Portellada is a village in the Matarranya district of Aragon — population measured in the hundreds even then — and like dozens of similarly small Republican municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Madrid government tacitly permitted this, unable to supply coin to every corner of the Republic.
The Gari Mon catalogue reference trails off without a number, suggesting either extreme rarity or incomplete documentation at time of cataloguing. At 56 × 36 mm on card stock, these local pieces were functionally tokens rather than notes.