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50 Céntimos Canals

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Canals
Year 1937
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Size 55 × 40 mm
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Obverse description Printed in black on pink card stock, the face carries a plain single-rule rectangular border enclosing all text. The issuing authority name appears at the top in two lines, followed by the denomination numeral in large bold typeface alongside the abbreviated unit, with the municipality name and date at the foot. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or ornamental underprint.
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Reverse description The reverse is printed on the same pink card stock and is largely plain, bearing a black typeset serial number preceded by the abbreviation 'Nº' positioned toward the lower left. A faint circular violet official stamp is visible at centre-right, and a handwritten notation appears in the upper right corner.
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Canals is a small town in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after silver and copper coins vanished from circulation almost entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from a disrupted supply chain. These consejos municipales notes, sometimes printed locally on whatever stock was available, were valid only within the issuing municipality, which kept them out of broader circulation and ultimately limited survival rates.

The Turró and Garí references place this among the better-documented Valencian municipal emissions, but documentation is not the same as abundance.

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