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50 Céntimos La Felguera
| Issuer | Comité de Abastos de La Felguera |
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| Size | 80 × 34 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-coloured paper with all text applied by letterpress in black ink. The issuer name 'Comité de Abastos de La Felguera' is set in a spaced gothic typeface across the upper portion, underlined by a double rule. The denomination legend occupies the lower half in a larger bold serif typeface, with no vignette or ornamental border. |
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| Reverse description | Buff-coloured paper bearing a single hand-applied oval validation stamp in purple ink, positioned left of centre. The stamp encloses the municipal coat of arms of Langreo at its centre, surrounded by the circular legend 'Ayuntamiento de Langreo - Tenencia de Alcaldía - La Felguera'; the entire impression is inverted relative to the obverse orientation. |
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La Felguera was an industrial town in Asturias dominated by Duro Felguera, one of Spain's largest steel and heavy manufacturing operations. When the Civil War began in July 1936, anarchist and socialist committees across the Republican zone seized local economic control almost overnight. The Comité de Abastos — a supply and rationing committee — issued small-denomination paper locally because fractional coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or simply absent in a war economy.
These Asturian local issues were produced under chaotic conditions and most were redeemed or destroyed when the northern front collapsed in October 1937. Survivors are scarce precisely because the issuing authority ceased to exist.