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50 Céntimos Juseu
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Juseu |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note of typeset letterpress construction, entirely unadorned save for the printed text and a continuous dotted-line rectangular border. The issuing authority name "Consejo Municipal" appears in the upper portion in regular roman type, with "JUSEU" in large spaced capitals below, separated from the denomination statement by a row of decorative dots. The value legend "Vale por 50 céntimos" is set in bold type across the lower portion of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal JUSEU Vale por 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council Juseu Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
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Juseu is a tiny village in the Ribagorza comarca of Aragon, and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight in 1936. These extreme small-format emergency notes were produced entirely at the local level — no professional printer, no engraver, no security features of any kind.
The Gari Montané catalog documents several variants from Juseu, and 806A-A is among the rarer survivals, precisely because notes from villages of this size were produced in tiny quantities and treated as disposable scrip.