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50 Céntimos Faura
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Faura |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in dark blue ink on a light grey overall diamond-pattern underprint. The issuer's name appears in bold capitals across the upper portion, separated by a horizontal rule from the central value inscription. Series letter and serial number are typeset in the upper corners. The denomination numeral in bold type occupies the lower left, with a handwritten cashier's signature and an oval official ink stamp to the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark blue ink on plain paper and carries a centrally placed letterpress vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, comprising a quartered shield with castle and lion, flanked by the Pillars of Hercules with scrolling banderoles, and surmounted by a mural crown. An oval official ink stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Faura is applied to the right side. |
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Faura is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of other Spanish townships in 1937, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency — locally called moneda de necesidad — to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation during the Civil War. Republican Spain's Republican zone saw copper and silver hoarded almost immediately after July 1936, forcing even the smallest local bodies to print their own scrip to make change possible at all.
Faura's issue is catalogued in both Gari and Turró, which suggests it was produced in sufficient quantity to survive in collectible numbers, though Valencian municipal notes of this period vary wildly in scarcity. The Turró reference number places it firmly within the documented Valencian provincial series.