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50 Céntimos Carcagente
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Carcagente |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 105 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in black ink within a plain rectangular border frame. The municipal crowned coat of arms of Carcagente is printed in the upper left corner. The denomination and issuing authority are set in block lettering across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper, largely blank, with a violet rectangular hand-applied validation stamp at centre. The stamp reads 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / CARCAGENTE / CONSEJERÍA DE / HACIENDA / E INCAUTACIONES', within a rounded rectangular border. |
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Carcagente — now Carcaixent — was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities that issued their own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight in 1936. Hoarding, melting, and outright distrust emptied the till. The Consejo Municipal stepped in because no one else would.
Turró catalogues two varieties for this denomination; the B type is the less frequently encountered of the pair. Republican-zone municipal notes from Valencia province suffered heavy attrition — most surviving stocks were destroyed or abandoned as Nationalist forces advanced in 1939.