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50 Céntimos Albalate Luchador
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albalate Luchador |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALBALATE LUCHADOR Emisión 15 de Junio de 1937 50 CÉNTIMOS Su validez la acredita el sello al dorso Canjeable en Tesorería (Translation: Municipal Council of Albalate Luchador Issue June 15, 1937 50 Centimos Its validity is confirmed by the stamp on the back Redeemable in Treasury) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Albalate de las Nogueras — the village was briefly renamed Albalate Luchador during the Civil War, the suffix a declaration of Republican allegiance. Like hundreds of Castilian and Aragonese municipalities in 1937, the local council issued its own fractional scrip to plug a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage, which had been hoarded, melted, or simply swallowed by wartime disruption. These emergency municipales were technically illegal under Republican monetary regulations but tolerated out of necessity.
The Gari Montaner catalog classifies this as variant B, indicating at least two stamp or text variants exist for the issue — a common complication with hand-stamped village scrip of this period.