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50 Céntimos Chelva
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Chelva |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue by letterpress, the face is framed by a geometric border with corner ornaments. An oval vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left, flanked by typeset inscriptions stating the issuing authority, denomination, and emission date. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream paper stock, bearing only a handwritten pencil notation in the upper right corner added by a collector or cataloguer subsequent to issue. |
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Chelva is a small inland municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Consejo Municipal issues were purely local instruments — accepted, in practice, only within the town itself and occasionally in nearby villages with no better alternative.
The Turró and Gari-Montserrat references place this within the vast taxonomy of Spanish guerra civil local paper, a field where survival rates vary enormously by municipality. Chelva's issues are not among the commonly encountered ones.