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50 Céntimos Broto
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Broto (Province of Huesca) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain pinkish-orange card stock bearing a large oval municipal validation stamp in violet ink with a serrated inner border, applied centrally. A handwritten signature appears to the right of the stamp. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - BROTO (Huesca) PRESIDENCIA (Translation: Municipal Council - Broto (Huesca) Presidency) |
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Broto is a small municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of similarly isolated Spanish towns, its local council issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War when Republican-zone coinage essentially ceased to exist as a functional medium. The Consejo Municipal turned to whatever printing resources were locally available — which, in a village of this size, meant minimal technical sophistication and almost certainly a job printer rather than a specialist security firm.
Survival rates for these Aragonese municipal issues are highly uneven. Broto's remoteness meant small print runs and limited redistribution outside the immediate valley, which cuts both ways: fewer notes entered wide circulation, but fewer were ever systematically collected or archived either.