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50 Céntimos Callosa de Ensarriá
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Callosa de Ensarriá |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on plain cream card stock, with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. The large bold numeral '50' occupies the entire left half of the face, while the issuing authority legend is arranged in three lines to the right, separated by ruled horizontal lines. The denomination word 'céntimos' appears in bold type at the lower right, underscored by a double rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE Callosa de Ensarriá 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Callosa de Ensarriá / 50 centimos) |
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Callosa de Ensarriá is a small municipality in the Marina Baixa comarca of Alicante, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency small change notes in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican government's wartime economy had drained copper and silver from daily commerce, leaving local councils to paper over the gap — sometimes literally with card stock this thin.
The Gari Monetary catalogue remains the primary reference for these Valencian municipal emissions, many of which survive in tiny quantities. Callosa's issues are among the more obscure entries in that listing.