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50 Céntimos Montesa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Montesa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with rounded corners, printed entirely in black letterpress. The issuing authority name is set in two lines of serif type in the upper half, with the municipality name in larger capitals, separated from the denomination statement by a double horizontal rule. The value inscription occupies the lower portion in bold serif type. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise plain cream reverse bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal validation stamp in violet ink, centrally placed. The stamp encloses the municipal coat of arms at its centre, with the legend reading around the perimeter. The stamp text is inverted relative to the obverse orientation, consistent with manual application. |
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Montesa is a small municipality in Valencia's Costera comarca, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns it was forced to issue its own fractional currency during 1937 when the Republic's small-change shortage became acute enough to paralyze daily commerce. These municipal emergency notes — known collectively as "papel moneda local" — were produced by local authorities with whatever printing resources were at hand, which in Montesa's case meant minimal production values and an ink-stamped municipal seal as the only anti-counterfeiting measure.
The Turró and Gari catalogues treat this as a recognized variant (Gari Mon#951-B), suggesting at least one other emission exists for the same municipality.