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50 Céntimos Antella
| Issuer | Antella, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#172-D, TurróPV#213 |
| Obverse description | Blue letterpress text within a linear rectangular border frame, with the red coat of arms of the Valencian Community positioned to the left. The face value and issuing authority are rendered in the principal inscription, with the overall layout characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ANTELLA 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council Antella 50 Centimos) |
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Antella is a small municipality in Valencia's Ribera Alta comarca, and like dozens of similarly sized localities, it issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican zone's coin shortage by 1937 was acute enough that villages with fewer than a thousand inhabitants were printing their own money — Antella among them.
The Turró and Gari-Montaner references place this within the vast corpus of Valencian local issues, most produced on whatever card or heavy stock was available locally rather than through any formal printer.