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50 Céntimos Azuara
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Azuara |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE AZUARA CINCUENTA CENTIMOS Según acuerdo del 30 de octubre de 1937 EL ALCALDE-PRESIDENTE, EL TESORERO, Cambiará, a su presentación, la Caja Municipal (Translation: MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF AZUARA / FIFTY CENTIMOS / According to agreement of 30 October 1937 / The Mayor-President, / The Treasurer, / Redeemable on presentation at the Municipal Fund) |
| Reverse description | Yellow underprint of a repetitive guilloche rosette pattern fills the note field, enclosed within a multi-rule green rectangular border. The numeral '50' and the inscription 'CENTIMOS' are printed in green at centre, accompanied by the series letter and serial number. |
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Azuara is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and this note is a product of the fractional currency chaos that swept Republican-held Spain in 1936–37, when the hoarding of metal coins left local councils scrambling to print their own low-denomination scrip. The Consejo Municipal — not a bank, not a regional authority — issued these céntimos simply to make change.
Seix i Barral is better known as a literary publisher than a printer of emergency currency, but their Barcelona facilities took on considerable wartime scrip work during this period. Azuara itself fell to Nationalist forces in mid-1937, making the circulation window for this issue extremely brief.