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50 Céntimos Fayón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fayón |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency issue with all-text layout enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The denomination '50 Cts.' appears in large characters at centre, with the issuing authority and date of emission arranged in multiple lines across the face. A background of closely spaced dark horizontal lines fills the entire field, giving a rudimentary guilloche-like underprint effect. |
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| Reverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Fayón ha creado este Papel Moneda con el solo objeto de facilitar las transacciones dentro del Pueblo. Fayón a 15 de Enero de 1938. El Alcalde [firma] El Delegado de Abastos [firma] El Depositario [firma] VALOR 50 Cts. (Translation: The Municipal Council of Fayón has created this Paper Money with the sole purpose of facilitating transactions within the Town. Fayón, January 15, 1938. The Mayor [signature] The Delegate of Supplies [signature] The Depositary [signature] Value 50 Centimos) |
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Fayón is a small municipality in Zaragoza province that found itself deep inside the contested zone during the Aragon offensives of 1937–38. Like dozens of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities during the Civil War, the local council issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These consell municipal notes were locally produced, often on whatever paper was at hand, and circulated only within the issuing town.
The Gari Montaner catalogue documents these issues systematically, but survival rates for Fayón specifically are low. The town was largely destroyed and its population forcibly relocated decades later when the Mequinenza reservoir flooded the original village in 1971.