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50 Céntimos Gelsa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gelsa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 83 × 59 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GELSA 50 CÉNTIMOS Reintegrable a la Caja Municipal GELSA, 14 OCTUBRE 1937 DE CURSO OBLIGATORIO EN TODO EL TERMINO MUNICIPAL (Translation: Municipal Council of Gelsa 50 Centimos Reimbursable to the Municipal Fund Gelsa, October 14, 1937 Mandatory course throughout the Municipal Term) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GELSA 50 CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council of Gelsa 50 Centimos) |
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Gelsa is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, Aragon — well behind the Republican lines in 1937, which is why its municipal council had both the need and the opportunity to issue emergency fractional currency. The céntimo denominations that proliferated across Republican Spain during the Civil War were a direct consequence of coin hoarding and the near-total disappearance of small change from circulation, a problem acute enough that hundreds of municipalities resorted to their own solutions.
The printer, C.A.M. in Barcelona, handled a substantial volume of these local emergency issues across Catalonia and Aragon, which makes attribution relatively straightforward when the imprint survives legibly.