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50 Céntimos Caudiel
| Issuer | Cooperativa C.N.T. Caudiel |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pink-red card stock, the obverse carries the issuer's name in bold serif type across the upper field, with a short horizontal rule beneath separating it from the value statement. The denomination "50 Céntimos" appears in large, heavy bold type at the foot of the note. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or decorative underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Cooperativa C. N. T. CAUDIEL Vale por 50 Céntimos (Translation: Cooperative C. N. T. Caudiel Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
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Caudiel is a small agricultural municipality in Castellón province, and during the Spanish Civil War its CNT-affiliated cooperative issued its own fractional currency to keep local commerce functioning after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. These hyper-local vales were never intended to travel beyond the village, which is precisely why survivorship is so poor — they were redeemed, lost, or simply discarded when the Republican zone collapsed in 1939.
The thick card stock construction was deliberate: easier to handle repeatedly in a market or cooperative store than thin paper, and marginally harder to counterfeit at village scale.