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5 Céntimos Elche
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Elche |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 108 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on pale yellow-green paper, the obverse is enclosed by a continuous looped scroll border running along all four edges. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL is set in bold block capitals across the upper field, flanked left and right, with ELCHE rendered in large open decorative lettering at centre and (ALICANTE) in smaller type to its right. Below, the emission date inscription and the designation ALCALDE - PRESIDENTE occupy the mid-field, while the denomination appears in large numerals at lower left as 5 CENTIMS. and in italic script as 5 céntimos at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 céntimos Consejo Municipal ELCHE Serie C DE VALOR EXCLUSIVAMENTE LOCAL OCTUBRE 1937 (Translation: 5 Centimos Municipal Council Elche Series C Exclusively local value October 1937) |
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Elche's municipal council, like hundreds of others across Republican Spain, was forced into issuing its own fractional paper money after the Civil War's outbreak in 1936 drained the country of metal coinage almost overnight. Hoarding and requisitioning gutted everyday commerce, and the central government was in no position to plug the gap — so local bodies improvised. These moneda local emissions were technically illegal under existing monetary law but were tolerated by the Republic out of sheer necessity.
The Gari Monerris catalogue remains the primary reference for Valencian Community issues, and the -D suffix here denotes a specific typographic or paper variant within the Elche 5 céntimos series — not all examples are equal.