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50 Céntimos Huesa
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Huesa (Municipality of Huesa) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Huesa Billete Fraccionario de esta Localidad 50 Céntimos El Alcalde, F. Rodríguez |
| Reverse description | Plain pink card stock bearing a single oval municipal validation stamp in violet ink, partially legible, with text reading "HEREDIA ORRI" and surrounding inscription; overlaid with a handwritten ink signature applied diagonally across the centre of the stamp. |
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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.