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0.50 Pesetas Masalavés
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Masalavés |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper note printed in black letterpress, with a bold block-type numeral '0'50' occupying the left half of the note. The word 'pesetas' and the issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MASALAVÉS' are set in vertical arrangement to the right of the denomination. Chequered black-and-white decorative borders run along the upper and lower edges. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LA VILLA DE MASALAVÉS |
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Masalavés is a small agricultural village in Valencia's Ribera Alta comarca, and like hundreds of similar municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency small change notes when fractional coinage vanished from circulation entirely. The Republican government effectively sanctioned this local improvisation — the national Gaceta de la República acknowledged the widespread shortage — but the notes carried no legal guarantee beyond the issuing council's local authority.
At roughly the size of a large postage stamp, this is among the smallest physical formats produced during the war. Survival rates for these municipal issues are unpredictable; many were redeemed and pulped, others simply lost.