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| Issuer | Lucena del Cid, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress printing in black on unadorned stock, with a geometric border frame enclosing the issuer name underlined and the denomination legend. The face presents a stark, utilitarian layout typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL LUCENA DEL CID VALE POR 50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Lucena del Cid Valid for 50 Centimos) |
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Lucena del Cid, a small Castellón municipality, issued fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War under the same Republican decree that authorized hundreds of local ajuntaments to produce their own small change when coins vanished from circulation entirely. The Generalitat Valenciana oversaw the framework, but production was strictly local — quality and materials varied enormously from one town to the next, and thick card stock like this was a common improvisation where proper banknote paper was unavailable.
The Gari Mon catalogue leaves this issue unnumbered, suggesting documentation remains incomplete. Survivors are scarce simply because few were made and fewer were kept.