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50 Céntimos Cortes de Pallás
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cortes de Pallás (Province of Valencia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-blue ink, the face bears the denomination and issuing authority in letterpress type, with a handwritten manuscript signature in black ink applied below. An oval municipal dry stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Cortes de Pallás is impressed over the text, serving as the primary authentication mark on this rudimentary wartime issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE 50 CENT 50 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CORTES DE PALLAS (Translation: Voucher 50 Centimos Municipal Council Cortes de Pallas) |
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Cortes de Pallás is a small municipality in the interior of Valencia province, and like hundreds of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency small-change notes when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. These municipal emissions — collectively documented under the "Guerra Civil" local issues — were authorized under Republican decree and printed or lithographed locally, often by whoever had access to a press. Most were produced in tiny quantities, used briefly within the issuing municipality alone, and either destroyed or lost afterward.
The absence of a Gari Monerris catalog number suggests this piece remains unregistered or was documented after the main census was compiled — either condition making it rarer on paper than most assigned issues.