Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Céntimos Monterrubio de la Serena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Monterrubio de la Serena |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Plain yellowish card stock with all text letterpress-printed in dark brown ink. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL and MONTERRUBIO DE LA SERENA are each underlined and arranged in two separate lines across the upper portion, followed by the denomination Vale por 50 céntimos in larger type and a serial number prefixed by No. The date Septiembre 1937 appears at the lower left. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Entirely plain yellowish card stock with a single oval municipal validation stamp applied in red ink, partially legible, positioned centrally toward the lower half of the reverse. No printed design or additional text is present. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Monterrubio de la Serena is a small municipality in the Badajoz province of Extremadura, and this 50 céntimos piece is a product of the fractional currency crisis that paralyzed Republican-controlled Spain in 1937. With silver coinage hoarded and centrally issued small change increasingly unavailable, hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many with populations in the low thousands — printed their own emergency paper. Monterrubio was among them.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: thinner paper disintegrated rapidly in daily market use. Gari catalogues this as the B variety, implying at least one earlier or concurrent issue from the same council.