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50 Céntimos Orihuela
| Issuer | Orihuela, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on plain paper, with a double-line rectangular border framing the entire face. A portrait vignette of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora — Spanish lawyer and first President of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1936) — is positioned to the right, accompanied by the payment obligation text and issuance date at left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Cincuenta céntimos / Año 1937 / Provincia de Alicante Ayuntamiento de Orihuela 50 CTS. (Translation: Fifty céntimos / Year 1937 / Province of Alicante, City Council of Orihuela, 50 cts.) |
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Orihuela, a municipality in Alicante province, issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War under the authority granted by the Republican government's decree of May 1937, which formally permitted local councils to produce small-denomination fractional currency to offset the chronic shortage of coin. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same, but survival rates vary enormously — smaller towns often printed in very limited runs on whatever stock was available locally.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented Valencian Community issues. Condition tends to be the decisive factor with these municipales, as many were redeemed and pulped after the war.