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50 Céntimos Gata de Gorgos

Issuer Sección de Trabajadores del Comercio y Oficinas de Gata
Year 1937
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Size 100 × 62 mm
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Obverse lettering LA SECCION DE TRABAJADORES DEL COMERCIO Y OFICINAS DE GATA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA Cincuenta Céntimos GATA DE GORGOS, 20 DE MAYO DE 1937.
El Presidente, El Secretario, El Cajero
(Translation: The Commercial and Office Workers Section of Gata will pay the bearer in banknotes of the Bank of Spain Fifty Centimos Gata de Gorgos, 20 May 1937. The President, The Secretary, The Cashier)
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Reverse lettering 50
CENTIMOS
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Gata de Gorgos is a small inland town in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia, and like dozens of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money during 1936–37 when the Republican government could not supply enough fractional coinage to keep local commerce moving. These local issues — known collectively as "papel moneda local" — were typically authorized by whichever trade union or collective happened to control civic administration at the time. Here, issuing authority fell to the commercial and office workers' section rather than a municipal council or anarchist collective, which is itself an organizational detail that sets this note apart from the majority of comparable Valencian issues.

Survival rates for Gata de Gorgos material are low. The town's total population in the 1930s was under two thousand, meaning print runs were small and redemption after the Nationalist victory in 1939 was effectively nil.

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