Catalog
50 Céntimos Aínsa
| Issuer | Comisión Gestora de Aínsa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on a light blue background, with a vignette showing a general panoramic view of the town of Aínsa. The denomination appears in abbreviated and full form, accompanied by the legal tender obligation inscription specifying mandatory local circulation. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 CTS. BILLETE DE CURSO LOCAL OBLIGATORIO CINCUENTA CÈNTIMOS (Translation: 50 Centimos Mandatory local course banknote Fifty Centimos) |
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Aínsa is a small Aragonese town that found itself behind Republican lines in 1937, and like dozens of similarly isolated municipalities, its local governing committee — the Comisión Gestora — resorted to issuing emergency fractional currency when coin supply collapsed under wartime conditions. The Catalan printer El Secretariat Català handled an enormous volume of these municipal emergency issues during the Civil War, supplying Republican-controlled communities across Aragon and Catalonia with locally denominated scrip.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains the primary reference for Spanish Civil War local issues, and the -B suffix on this listing typically denotes a variant — likely a color, paper, or typographic difference from the base type.