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| Uitgever | Villanueva del Arzobispo, Municipality of |
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| Jaar | 1937 |
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| Afmetingen | 88 × 69 mm |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Typeset letterpress note with dark text on plain paper, enclosed within an ornamental rectangular border with decorative corner elements. A radiant sun motif appears in the background as a central underprint. The face bears the full issuing inscription, denomination, issuing locality, and date in a structured layout. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Typeset letterpress reverse with dark text on plain paper, framed within an ornamental rectangular border matching the obverse. A vignette at centre presents an allegorical female figure wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a torch, sword, and cornucopia, accompanied by a lion — emblematic of the Spanish Republic. The surrounding text sets out the conditions of issue and redemption of the fractional notes. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Villanueva del Arzobispo is a small olive-growing municipality in the Jaén province of Andalusia, and this fifty-céntimo piece belongs to the enormous wave of local emergency paper money — known collectively as "moneda local de necesidad" — that flooded Republican-held Spain after July 1936, when the military uprising caused a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation. Municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions across Republican territory issued their own fractional notes because the central government simply could not supply enough physical currency to keep local commerce functioning.
Jaén province, heavily Republican and critical to the olive oil supply chain, produced dozens of such issuers. The Gari Montserrat catalogue remains the primary reference for these hyper-local emissions, most of which had no banking infrastructure behind them whatsoever.