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50 Céntimos Piles
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Piles |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 59 × 37 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain pale grey paper with a bold black double-line rectangular border enclosing all text. The upper register carries the issuer name in two lines of letterpress type, with 'PILES' spaced across the centre; a horizontal rule divides the field, and the denomination '50 céntimos' is set in large bold letterpress type in the lower register. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal PILES 50 céntimos |
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Piles is a small coastal municipality in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of similar townships during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone copper and silver coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely in 1936–37. These municipally issued notes — known collectively as "paper de guerra" or emergency local issues — filled a practical void that neither the Republic nor regional authorities could adequately address at the local level.
The official stamp is the sole security measure, which was typical of these micro-issues and did little to prevent forgery — though the hyperlocal circulation radius made counterfeiting economically pointless anyway.