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50 Céntimos Navalpino
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Navalpino |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock note printed in black letterpress with all text arranged in horizontal registers. The issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' and locality 'NAVALPINO (C. Real)' are each underlined and set in bold uppercase type in the upper portion. The denomination line 'Vale por 50 céntimos' occupies the centre, with a serial number preceded by 'No.' in the lower right and the month and year 'Septiembre 19[37]' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL NAVALPINO (C. Real) Vale por 50 céntimos Septiembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Navalpino (Ciudad Real) Valid for 50 Centimos September 1937.) |
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Navalpino is a tiny municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936, prompting thousands of municipalities — including the most remote — to issue their own emergency paper or cardboard scrip under authorization from the Generalitat or local councils. Navalpino's 50 céntimos falls squarely into this wave.
The Gari Monovar catalog reference is unassigned, which typically signals either very limited surviving examples or that documentation of this particular emission remains incomplete. Small-village Civil War vales are among the most difficult Spanish notaphilic material to trace with confidence.