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50 Céntimos Palma de Gandía
| Issuer | Consejería Municipal de Abastecimientos de Palma de Gandía |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink paper note printed in black letterpress, with a double-rule rectangular border framing the entire face. The issuing authority's name appears in bold type across the upper portion, with the locality name centered beneath, separated from the denomination by a single horizontal rule. The denomination '50 céts.' is rendered in large bold numerals and lettering in the lower half of the note, with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejeria Municipal de Abastecimientos Palma de Gandía 50 céts. (Translation: Municipal Department of Supplies / Palma de Gandía / 50 Centimos) |
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Palma de Gandía is a small municipality in Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republican government authorized local bodies to produce small-denomination notes to address the acute shortage of coin. The Consejería Municipal de Abastecimientos — the municipal supply council — was an administrative body that emerged from wartime necessity rather than any banking function, which is precisely why these local emissions are so varied in quality and format.
Survival rates for small Valencian municipal issues are uneven. Many were redeemed locally and pulped; others simply disintegrated in circulation given the poor paper stock used.