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50 Céntimos Cervera del Maestre
| Issuer | Cervera del Maestre, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on light blue paper, the note is enclosed within a continuous decorative border of small interlocking floral and geometric rosette motifs. The issuing authority name 'Consejo Municipal' appears at the top in large cursive script, with 'Cervera del Maestre' in roman type below, separated by a short rule. A bearer clause and denomination statement occupy the lower half in italic script, followed by a printed serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Spanish Civil War local emergency issue produced by the Municipality of Cervera del Maestre (currently known as Cervera del Maestrat), located in the Province of Castellón, Valencian Community. Such municipal vales were issued across Republican-held territory to alleviate the acute shortage of small-denomination fiduciary coinage during the conflict. |
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Cervera del Maestre is a small municipality in Castelló province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The hoarding of metal coinage — copper included — left local economies functionally paralysed, and municipal paper of this kind filled the gap by fiat of the town council alone.
At 61 × 39 mm, this is among the smallest paper instruments in the entire Spanish Civil War municipal series. Paper this size degrades badly at the folds, and surviving examples with intact corners are genuinely uncommon.