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50 Céntimos Moyuela, Colectividad
| Issuer | Colectividad de Moyuela (Municipality of Moyuela, Province of Zaragoza) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset in black letterpress on plain paper, the note carries the issuer's title 'Colectividad de MOYUELA' across the top, separated from the body text by a ruled line. The denomination '50' appears in large bold numerals at centre, flanked to the left by the text 'Bono por' and to the right by 'Emisión 1937'. A circular municipal stamp bearing a coat of arms is impressed in violet ink at centre, and three signature lines for El Cajero, El Contador, and El Tesorero appear below, with a single handwritten signature present. The entire face is enclosed within a decorative geometric border of repeating black motifs. |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad de MOYUELA Bono por 50 Emisión 1937 El Cajero, El Contador, El Tesorero (Translation: Collectivity of Moyuela / Bond for 50 / Issue 1937 / The Cashier, The Accountant, The Treasurer) |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional issues produced by Republican-zone municipalities and collectives during the Spanish Civil War, when the hoarding of metallic coin — especially silver — created acute shortages of small-denomination currency almost immediately after July 1936. Moyuela, a small agricultural village in the Ebro basin southeast of Zaragoza, fell within the Aragonese anarchist collective network, and issues like this one functioned as local scrip rather than state currency, valid only within the issuing community's economic sphere.
Gari Mon cataloguing for many Aragonese village issues remains incomplete, and unlisted status here likely reflects documentation gaps rather than genuine rarity.