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50 Céntimos Ocaña
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ocaña |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Ocaña 50 céntimos VALE para transacciones locales Ocaña 1.º septiembre 1937 El Presidente, Pedro L. Mata El Depositario, S. Ortega (Translation: Municipal Council of Ocaña 50 Centimos Voucher for local transactions Ocaña September 1, 1937 The President, Pedro L. Mata The Depositary, S. Ortega) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, left plain, consistent with the utilitarian emergency issue character of this wartime local voucher. |
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Ocaña, a small Castilian town south of Toledo, issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War because the Republic's central authorities could not reliably supply small-denomination coinage to outlying municipalities. These locally authorized notes — known collectively as moneda local or papel moneda municipal — proliferated across Republican-held territory from 1936 onward, each council printing what it needed and backing it with little more than civic authority.
The Gari Mon catalogue distinguishes two variants for this emission; this is the B type. Franco's forces took Ocaña in late 1936 — the fact that this note was issued in 1937 under a Municipal Council suggests the town's administrative situation during the war deserves closer scrutiny before assuming straightforward Republican provenance.