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50 Céntimos El Guijo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de El Guijo |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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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) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse bearing a single circular official hand-stamp applied in blue-violet ink at centre, with text around the circumference and what appears to be a small emblem or date in the interior field. The remainder of the surface is blank, consistent with the rudimentary production typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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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.