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50 Céntimos Cieza
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Cieza |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note in dark blue ink on cream paper, enclosed within a dotted guilloche border. The municipal authority heading appears in large bold type at top, with the promise-to-pay legend and the face value CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS repeated in a distinctive bold decorative typeface at centre. The lower portion carries the issue date and three facsimile-printed official titles with their respective signatories. |
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| Reverse description | Plain blue-grey dotted underprint field enclosed by a simple rectangular frame, with the numeral '50' and legend CÉNTIMOS printed in bold type at centre within a lozenge-shaped vignette formed by the dot-screen background. A violet official ink stamp is applied at centre-left, and a handwritten serial number appears in the upper right corner. |
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Cieza, a small municipality in Murcia, issued local paper currency during the Spanish Civil War as the national monetary system fractured and small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation entirely. These ayuntamiento notes — produced by hundreds of Spanish towns between 1936 and 1939 — filled an acute practical gap, not a political statement. Three signatures authenticate this particular piece: the alcalde, the interventor, and the depositario, a triumvirate of local administrative authority that gave the notes at least a veneer of institutional legitimacy.
Survival rates for Cieza's emission are modest. Locally printed wartime scrip of this type was rarely archived with care.