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50 Céntimos Maella
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Maella |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CENTIMOS EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MAELLA RECONOCE AL PORTADOR CINCUENTA CENTIMOS De curso obligatorio en el término municipal. 1º de noviembre de 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos The Municipal Council of Maella Recognizes to the bearer Fifty Centimos Mandatory course in the Municipal Term. November 1, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMOS |
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Maella is a small municipality in the Bajo Aragón-Caspe comarca, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican Spain faced a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted. These locally issued notes, collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes municipales* phenomenon, were authorized by the Republican government but produced entirely at the town's own initiative, with wildly varying print quality and paper stock from one issuer to the next.
Gari Montllor's catalogue remains the primary reference for Aragonese municipal issues of this type, and the 867-A designation reflects variant tracking within what is often a poorly documented series.