Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Céntimos Calasparra
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Calasparra |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Violet letterpress text arranged with geometric border framing at top and bottom, centred around a vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic flanked by lateral floral ornaments and set against an underprint of green squares. The denomination and issuer details are distributed across the face in a formal layout typical of Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency issues. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 0`50 AYUNTAMIENTO DE CALASPARRA (Translation: City Council of Calasparra) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Calasparra is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local issues, known collectively as moneda local or guerra civil municipal notes, were authorised under a patchwork of Republican government decrees from 1936 onward that gave municipalities some latitude to plug the change shortage themselves.
The Gari Monasteries catalogue remains the primary reference for these Murcian issues, and Calasparra's series is among the more obscure — survival rates for 50 céntimos fractionals from minor municipalities are genuinely low, as most circulated hard until worthless.