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50 Céntimos Enguera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Enguera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset in black on plain paper, the obverse carries a geometric rectangular border framing an industrial vignette with factory buildings and trees in the background. The municipal emblem of Enguera appears to the left, while the text block states the issuing authority, place, date, and face value in letterpress printing. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Enguera pagará al portador en moneda legal ENGUERA, 15 JULIO 1937. 50 CINCUENTA CENTIMOS (Translation: The Municipal Council of Enguera will pay the bearer in legal tender Enguera, July 15, 1937 50 Fifty Centimos) |
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Enguera is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional notes when the Republic's coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply disrupted by wartime logistics. The Consejo Municipal issues of 1937 were a purely local solution to a purely local problem, with no backing beyond the authority of whichever faction held the town.
Valencia fell to Franco's forces in 1939, and most surviving municipal issues from the region were rendered worthless and discarded, which accounts for the relative scarcity of intact examples from smaller councils like Enguera.