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50 Céntimos Cabanes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cabanes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 55 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on blue-grey card stock, enclosed within a plain double-line rectangular border. The issuing authority appears at the top, with the locality name below, followed by a handwritten serial number within an oval stamp impression and a manuscript signature to the left. The denomination '0`50 cts.' is set in large bold type at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a circular official rubber stamp impression in dark blue-violet ink, applied off-centre and partially inverted, reading 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - CABANES' around the circumference, with a heraldic vignette at the centre showing three towers and a palm branch — elements consistent with the municipal coat of arms of Cabanes. |
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Cabanes is a small municipality in Castellón province, and like hundreds of similar councils across Republican Spain in 1937, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the central government's coin supply collapsed entirely. Copper and silver had vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply exhausted by wartime demand — leaving local councils with no practical alternative but to print their own.
The Gari Mon catalogue documents this piece as 378-A, implying at least one variant exists. At 55 × 40 mm on thick card stock, these municipally produced notes were designed for durability, not elegance. Many were crudely printed on whatever material the ayuntamiento could source locally.