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50 Céntimos Floreal del Raspeig
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Floreal del Raspeig |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 céntimos El Consejo Municipal DE Floreal del Raspeig (ALICANTE) pagará al portador cincuenta céntimos. Floreal del Raspeig, Julio 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Floreal del Raspeig (Alicante) will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos. Floreal del Raspeig, July 1937) |
| Reverse description | Green letterpress printing with a geometric and floral decorative border running the full perimeter of the note. The local municipal coat of arms is centered within the design, accompanied by abbreviated issuing authority text. The composition is characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era locally produced emergency currency. |
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Floreal del Raspeig — now simply Alguazas del Raspeig, or more commonly El Campello's inland neighbor, though the municipality in question here is the one near Alicante — issued this fractional note during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of metallic coinage forced hundreds of Spanish municipalities to print their own emergency paper. The Consejo Municipal designation reflects the Republican local government structure imposed after July 1936, replacing the previous ayuntamiento terminology.
At 50 céntimos, this sits at the lowest tier of municipal emergency coinage — vales and cartones of this denomination were often printed on whatever stock was locally available, which accounts for the wide paper quality variation seen across surviving examples of the Raspeig series.