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50 Céntimos Játiva
| Issuer | Játiva, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue and brown note centred on the local municipal coat of arms, surrounded by a vignette of fruits, leaves, and cereal spikes in the lower portion. Denomination and issuer inscriptions are distributed across the face, with the issue date of 5 June 1937 incorporated into the text. |
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| Reverse description | Blue and brown note framed by a floral decorative border along the perimeter. A portrait vignette of Francisco de Paula Martí, the Játiva-born cryptographer and playwright, is placed to the right, with denomination and issuer inscriptions completing the design. |
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Játiva — the Valencian town that still called itself Xàtiva among locals — issued emergency paper money throughout the Civil War years as the Republican zone's chronic coin shortage forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own fractional currency. These municipal issues were produced under wildly inconsistent conditions, and quality control was essentially nonexistent. The Turró catalogue documents significant variation between specimens catalogued under the same reference, suggesting multiple print runs or at minimum inconsistent inking and paper stock.
Survival rates for Valencian municipal notes from 1937 are generally poor — not from heavy use, but from deliberate destruction after Franco's forces took the region in 1939.