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0.50 Pesetas Llombay
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Llombay |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black and green within a bold rectangular border. The issuer's name appears in black at the top, with the serial number printed in green below a ruled line. The denomination numeral and unit are set in large green and black type respectively in the lower half of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain white paper stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Llombay is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of small coins from circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate coinage to rural communities forced this improvisation at the most local administrative level imaginable — a village council printing its own half-peseta notes.
The Gari Monetary catalogue documents these Valencian municipal emissions in detail; the 854 series covers Llombay specifically. Surviving examples are scarce simply because production quantities for villages of this size were tiny, and most notes were redeemed or discarded once the crisis passed.