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50 Céntimos Moneva
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Moneva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MONEVA Emisión 1.º de diciembre de 1937 Cincuenta céntimos Canjeable en Tesorería SU VALIDEZ LA ACREDITA EL SELLO AL DORSO (Translation: Municipal Council of Moneva Issue December 1, 1937 Fifty Centimos Exchangeable in Treasury Its validity is accredited by the stamp on the back) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the reverse is framed by a wavy guilloche border with dot accents running the full perimeter. The bold block numeral '50' appears at upper centre above the denomination word, flanking a symmetrical ornamental vignette of interlocking scrollwork that occupies the centre field. The series designation is printed at left and right of the vignette, the serial number in black typeset numerals appears at lower left and lower right, and the printer's imprint runs in small capitals along the bottom edge. |
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Moneva is a village in Aragón with a population that barely reached three figures even before the Civil War. That a municipal council this small issued its own fractional currency in 1937 is less surprising than it sounds — the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain forced hundreds of local bodies to print emergency scrip just to keep markets functioning. These are collectively known as billetes locales or guerra civil municipales, and the Gari catalogue documents well over a thousand distinct issues.
Seix i Barral, better known as a Barcelona literary publisher, took on emergency printing contracts during the war years. The official stamp is the only authentication device — a vulnerability common across the entire category.