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50 Céntimos Monterrubio de la Serena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Monterrubio de la Serena (Province of Badajoz) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue-black ink on cream card stock. The coat of arms of the Second Spanish Republic is positioned in the upper left, rendered in a small woodcut-style vignette with the Pillars of Hercules flanking the quartered royal shield surmounted by a mural crown. The issuing authority and denomination legend are arranged in a centered typographic layout, separated from the bearer clause below by a double horizontal rule. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing the plain cream-coloured card stock with no design, text, or security features. |
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Monterrubio de la Serena is a small municipality in the Badajoz interior, and this 50 céntimos piece belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War-era local emergency paper — vales or billetes de necesidad issued by municipal councils after the July 1936 military rising disrupted coin circulation nationwide. The Republican government tolerated local emission because it had no immediate alternative; small change effectively ceased to exist across loyalist-held territory within weeks of the uprising.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, suggesting this example may be unrecorded or catalogued only in regional supplements. Survival rates for Badajoz provincial issues are uneven — the province changed hands violently in August 1936, and much locally-issued paper was destroyed or abandoned in the chaos.