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50 Céntimos Campello
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Campello |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | El Ayuntamiento de Campello pagará al portador la cantidad de cincuenta céntimos de peseta. Campello 19 Junio 1937. El Depositario. El Alcalde. El Interventor. José M.ª Giner (Translation: The City Council of Campello will pay the bearer the amount of fifty céntimos de peseta. Campello, 19 June 1937. The Treasurer. The Mayor. The Comptroller. José M.ª Giner.) |
| Reverse description | Red letterpress typeset text on cream paper, enclosed within the same decorative geometric scrollwork border as the obverse. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is printed centrally, flanked by the denomination and details of the issuing municipality. |
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Campello — a small coastal municipality in the province of Alicante — issued emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War under the authority granted by the Republican government's decree of late 1936, which permitted local councils to produce fractional currency to address the acute shortage of coin. The coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation: hoarded, melted, or simply absent in a wartime economy running on fear. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same, producing what collectors now call "guerra civil" local issues, and the variation in quality and survival rates is enormous.
Campello's issues are among the less documented of the Valencian province series. The Gari catalogue remains the principal reference for these municipal emissions.