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50 Céntimos Estercuel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Estercuel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design with all text set in letterpress within a geometric border composed of ruled lines and corner floral ornaments. The central text block carries the full issuing authority legend, face value, and mandatory circulation declaration. The austere layout is characteristic of locally produced Spanish Civil War emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ESTERCUEL PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE 50 CENTIMOS Billete de curso forzoso en la localidad Estercuel a 6 de Septiembre de 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Estercuel Will pay the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos Mandatory course banknote in the municipality Estercuel, September 6, 1937) |
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Estercuel is a tiny village in Teruel province, Aragon — during the Civil War it fell within the Republican zone, and like hundreds of other small municipalities it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin disappeared from circulation almost entirely after mid-1936. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure worth mentioning; these notes were typically produced on whatever local press or typewriter stock was available, which is why survivors show considerable variation in ink impression and paper weight.
Teruel changed hands violently in the winter of 1937–38, one of the war's bloodiest engagements. Notes from this municipality rarely survived that transition.