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50 Céntimos Aras de Alpuente
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Aras de Alpuente |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular (Rounded corners) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 céntimos Consejo Municipal DE ARAS DE ALPUENTE (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Aras de Alpuente) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Aras de Alpuente is a small municipality in the Valencia province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain in 1937, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the withdrawal of metallic coin from circulation. The Consejo Municipal — effectively the local governing council operating under wartime conditions — produced these notes to fill the void left by hoarding and the collapse of small-change supply. The phenomenon was so widespread that the Generalitat and the Republican government repeatedly tried to suppress local emissions without success.
The Turró and Gari references place this firmly within the documented Valencia regional corpus, but municipally issued pieces at this denomination survive in genuinely limited numbers — small towns printed small runs, and most circulated hard before being discarded.