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50 Céntimos Elche
| Issuer | Consejo de Economía Local de Elche |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo de Economía Local pagará al portador Cincuenta céntimos Elche 1 de julio de 1937 50 El Presidente, El Tesorero, (Translation: The Local Economy Council will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos Elche July 1, 1937 50 The President, The Treasurer,) |
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| Reverse lettering | Nº [serial number] 50-cincuenta céntimos-50 LA GRÁFICA.. ELCHE (Translation: No. [serial number] 50-Fifty Centimos-50 LA GRÁFICA.. ELCHE) |
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Elche's local economic council issued this note during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced a catastrophic shortage of fractional coinage. The central government's inability to supply small change forced hundreds of municipalities, trade unions, and local bodies to print their own emergency currency — a phenomenon that generated thousands of distinct issues across Republican-held territory in 1937 and 1938.
La Gráfica was a local Elche printer, not a specialist security press. The limitations of that show in the production quality typical of the series.