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50 Céntimos Huesa
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Huesa (Municipality of Huesa) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink card stock in black letterpress throughout. The issuer's name "Ayuntamiento de Huesa" appears at the top in bold serif type, separated from the central legend "Billete Fraccionario de esta Localidad" by a double rule. The denomination "50 Céntimos" is set in large display type in the lower half, flanked by a solid black semicircular ornament to the right, with a handwritten serial number at lower left and the printed mayoral attribution "El Alcalde, F. Rodríguez" at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Huesa Billete Fraccionario de esta Localidad 50 Céntimos El Alcalde, F. Rodríguez |
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Huesa is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally-issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation in 1936. These municipal issues — cartones, as they were often called — were produced under wildly varying conditions, sometimes printed by local printers on whatever stock was available, sometimes handwritten or rubber-stamped entirely.
The Gari Monovar catalog documents the extraordinary breadth of this phenomenon across Republican-held territory. The 773-B suffix indicates a cataloged variant within the Huesa series, though the municipality's output was small enough that surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.