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50 Céntimos Esplús
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Esplús |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in brown ink with a plain rectangular border framing the entire face. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears as a vignette at left, balanced by an ear of wheat at right. All legends are set in period typography, with the denomination and issuing authority arranged in registers across the centre and lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ESPLÚS 50 CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council of Esplús 50 Céntimos) |
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Esplús is a small agricultural municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of other Spanish villages during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. The Republican government had failed to solve the small-change crisis at the national level, forcing municipalities — many with no financial infrastructure whatsoever — to print their own solutions.
The C.A.M. printer in Barcelona supplied a significant proportion of these municipal issues across Catalonia and Aragon, producing short runs for individual councils on demand. Gari Mon 617-C identifies this as one of the documented variants within the Esplús emission.