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50 Céntimos Bronchales
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bronchales (Province of Teruel) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-blue card stock bearing a handwritten face value inscription at centre, validated by an oval municipal rubber stamp incorporating the issuer name in a circular legend and the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic. The note is entirely unprinted, its authority derived solely from the manuscript notation and the applied stamp, typical of improvised Civil War-era emergency fractional currency. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, consisting of plain light-blue card stock with no printed or handwritten elements, consistent with the improvised nature of this Civil War emergency issue. |
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Bronchales is a small mountain village in the Sierra de Albarracín, and its wartime scrip exists because the Spanish Civil War severed normal currency supply lines to isolated rural municipalities almost immediately after July 1936. The Consejo Municipal — the local council — issued these emergency notes out of sheer necessity, not monetary ambition. Coins had vanished from circulation hoarded by a nervous population, and without fractional currency commerce at the local level simply stopped.
Gari Mon catalogs dozens of these Aragonese village issues; most were printed on whatever card or heavy paper the municipality had to hand, with no professional printer involved. Survival rates vary wildly — some village issues are known from single examples, others turned up in bulk finds decades later.