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50 Céntimos La Coronada
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Coronada |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on cream paper stock, with the provisional serial number hand-written in ink at top right beneath the heading. The bearer obligation text is set in a combination of standard and bold letterpress type across three lines, followed by the place and date of issue. Two signature lines at the bottom designate the roles of El Depositario and El Alcalde, each accompanied by a manuscript signature within an oval paraph. |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, unprinted. |
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La Coronada is a small municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns across Republican-held Spain, it resorted to locally printed fractional paper during the coin shortage that gripped the country after July 1936. Silver and copper had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost to wartime disruption — leaving municipal councils to fill the gap themselves, with whatever printing resources were at hand.
The Gari Monserrat cataloguing of these Spanish Civil War municipal issues remains the principal reference, though attribution and survival data for La Coronada specifically are thin. Badajoz province fell largely to Nationalist forces early in the conflict, which cut short the circulation window for many local emissions from the area.