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50 Céntimos Jumilla
| Issuer | Jumilla, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Light brown and blue note centred on the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, rendered with moderate detail against a plain field. The face value appears in large numerals flanking the central vignette, with the issuing municipality and date inscribed in the surrounding text band. The spare layout, with minimal ornamental underprint, is characteristic of wartime municipal emergency scrip issued during the Spanish Civil War. |
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| Reverse description | Violet-brown and green reverse organised around a central circle enclosing the face value numeral, set within a geometric guilloche-style border. The surrounding field carries the issuing authority inscription and denomination text in a plain typographic arrangement. The restrained composition is typical of locally produced wartime emergency scrip from the Spanish Civil War period. |
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Jumilla is a small wine-producing municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-change supply forced local authorities — ayuntamientos, cooperatives, trade unions — to fill the gap themselves, producing an enormous variety of emergency local issues that are now collectively catalogued under the broader "billetes locales" category.
Provincial issues from Murcia tend to survive in smaller quantities than those from larger Catalan or Valencian municipalities, simply because print runs were proportionally modest.