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50 Céntimos Bocairente
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bocairente |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BOCAIRENTE La Depositaría de este Consejo reintegrará al portador Cincuenta céntimos Papel moneda de valor exclusivamente local SEGUNDA EMISIÓN (Translation: Municipal Council of Bocairente The Depositary of this Council will reimburse the bearer Fifty Centimos Paper money of exclusively local value Second Issue) |
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| Reverse lettering | BOCAIRENTE |
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Bocairente — a small textile-producing municipality in Valencia's interior — issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War when the Republic's central authorities could not guarantee adequate supplies of small-denomination coinage. The Consejo Municipal, like hundreds of similar local bodies across the Republican zone, essentially became a de facto monetary authority by necessity. These municipal emissions were technically illegal under existing banking law but were tolerated, then retrospectively sanctioned, as the coin shortage worsened through 1937.
The multiple Turró references (419 and 422) indicate at least two distinct varieties within the 50 céntimos denomination — likely differing in serial numbering, ink color, or paper stock rather than plate design.