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50 Céntimos Gata de Gorgos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gata de Gorgos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper stock printed entirely in dark red letterpress. The issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" appears in bold upper case across the top, with "Gata de Gorgos" in smaller mixed-case lettering below, separated from the denomination line by a full-width horizontal rule. The value "VALE POR 50 Cts." is set in large bold type across the lower portion, the numeral 50 rendered in a distinctive outlined style. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Gata de Gorgos VALE POR 50 Cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Gata de Gorgos Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
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Gata de Gorgos is a small municipality in the Marina Alta comarca of Alicante, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of emergency local issues that flooded Republican-held Spain after the Civil War disrupted the national coin supply from mid-1936 onward. The Banco de España had effectively stopped producing low-denomination coinage, and municipal councils — many with no banking infrastructure whatsoever — were left to fill the gap with whatever they could print locally.
At 59 × 32 mm, this is among the smallest paper money issued anywhere in twentieth-century Europe. The Gari Monetary catalog reference 703-D indicates a distinct variety within the Gata de Gorgos issues, suggesting at least minor production variants exist for this denomination.