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50 Céntimos Jávea
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Jávea |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on blue-grey paper, the upper half carries the municipal coat of arms of Jávea at the left — a crowned shield bearing a castle tower flanked by the letters L and L — with the issuer legend arranged to its right in two lines. A solid horizontal rule divides the face, below which the denomination numeral and text are set in bold letterpress type. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is an unprinted blue-grey paper field bearing a single handwritten ink signature applied diagonally across the centre, serving as the sole authenticating element on this side of the note. |
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Jávea (Xàbia in Valencian) was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities forced to produce emergency fractional currency after the Civil War's outbreak in 1936 drained metallic coin from circulation almost overnight. The Consejo Municipal issues were purely local stop-gaps — legally dubious, accepted only within the town's limits, and often refused even there.
Gari Mon catalogues four varieties for this denomination; the D suffix here distinguishes a specific typographic or paper variant. These small municipal notes were printed in tiny quantities and discarded casually once the crisis passed, which accounts for their relative scarcity now despite the chaos of the period producing so many of them.