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50 Céntimos El Guijo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de El Guijo |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain ground printed in dark blue-black by letterpress, with the issuer inscription along the top edge followed by a horizontal rule and a repeating guilloche-style wave border. The denomination '50 Céntimos' is set in large bold type at centre, flanked by small arrow-head ornaments, between two horizontal rules. The text 'Páguese al portador' appears above the denomination and 'Valor provisional garantido' below, all in italic script, with a second guilloche wave band closing the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de EL GUIJO Páguese al portador 50 Céntimos Valor provisional garantido (Translation: Municipal Council of El Guijo Pay the bearer 50 Centimos Guaranteed provisional value) |
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El Guijo is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. This note belongs to the wave of locally issued emergency fractional currency — moneda local or papel moneda municipal — that proliferated across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after the hoarding of coins and the collapse of normal monetary supply left even trivial transactions impossible. Hundreds of Spanish towns issued their own scrip between 1936 and 1939, many of them entirely undocumented in major catalogs.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, which places this among the least-catalogued examples of the series.