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50 Céntimos La Jana
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Jana |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain uncoloured paper printed in black by letterpress within a simple rectangular border. A vertical left panel contains the serial number oriented sideways, surmounted by a small floral ornament. The right field is divided by a horizontal rule, with the issuing authority legend in the upper portion and the denomination statement in bold block type in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DELEGACION DE ABASTOS LA JANA VALE 50 CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council Supplies Delegation La Jana It's worth 50 Centimos) |
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La Jana is a small municipality in the Baix Maestrat comarca of Castellón, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never replaced. These municipally issued notes, broadly catalogued under the wartime "billetes locales" phenomenon, were legal only within the issuing municipality's own commerce.
At roughly the size of a large postage stamp, this note was almost certainly produced on whatever printing resources the council had at hand. Very few examples survive undamaged.