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50 Céntimos Mislata
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mislata |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress vignette on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative guilloche border of interlocking scroll motifs. The heading 'Consejo Municipal de Mislata' is rendered in Gothic blackletter script across the upper portion, with the face value 'VALE POR 50 cts.' in large bold roman type at centre. Three signature lines labelled DEPOSITARIO, INTERVENTOR, and PRESIDENTE appear at foot, each bearing a red manuscript signature, with a circular red official municipal seal applied to the left margin; the printer's imprint 'CASA FARINETTI – VALENCIA' is visible in small type at the lower edge. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in blue, centred on a bold numeral '50' face value surrounded by simple geometric frame ornaments forming a rectangular border. Additional textual guarantees of validity and expiry date are arranged around the central value panel in a straightforward typeset layout. |
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Mislata was a small municipality on the western outskirts of Valencia, and like hundreds of Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional emergency paper — guerre de monnaie made necessary by the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation after 1936. The Consejo Municipal had no banking infrastructure behind it; these notes circulated on civic authority alone, accepted locally because there was simply nothing else to use.
Casa Farinetti was a Valencia commercial printer, not a security press. That matters for survival rates — the paper stock and ink are not archival quality, and worn or foxed examples are the rule rather than the exception.