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0.50 Pesetas Ondara
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ondara |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper stock with a typeset letterpress design in dark brown ink. A double horizontal rule frames the denomination '0'50 PTAS.' at centre, with the issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - ONDARA' across the top. A dotted-circle border runs the full perimeter, with small decorative rosette devices at each corner, and the redemption clause printed in smaller roman type below the denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with a typeset letterpress design in dark brown ink, employing a double-register geometric border composed of repeating square floral units along all four sides. The place name 'ONDARA' is set in spaced capitals at the top, the denomination '0'50 PTAS.' in large bold type at centre flanked by diagonal-line rules, and the issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' in spaced capitals at the foot. |
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Ondara is a small town in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia, and like hundreds of other Republican municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when the shortage of metallic coin became acute after 1936. These local emergency issues — known collectively as "billetes locales" — were authorized under the Republican government's permissive stance toward municipal money creation, a practical response to a real problem that produced thousands of distinct types across Spain.
The Gari Monetary catalogue documents this as the sole denomination confirmed for Ondara, which suggests either very limited issue or near-total attrition. Notes from the Marina Alta region circulated hard in a short window and most did not survive 1939.