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50 Céntimos Rosell

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Rosell
Year 1937
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Reference(s) Gari Mon#
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Reverse description Otherwise plain reverse bearing a single large circular violet ink stamp applied by hand at centre, enclosing a heraldic coat of arms vignette. The legend around the stamp reads "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" at the top arc and "ROSELL (Castellón)" at the lower arc, with two small decorative dots flanking the lower text.
Reverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL · ROSELL (Castellón) ·
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal issues that flooded the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, when the hoarding of coin — copper, brass, anything metallic — created a catastrophic shortage of small change almost overnight. The Consejo Municipal of Rosell, a small town in the Baix Maestrat comarca of Castellón, issued its own fractional paper scrip to keep local commerce moving. These hyper-local notes were authorised under a Republican decree permitting municipalities to issue emergency currency when no other solution was available.

The Garrió reference remains unassigned, which typically reflects either an unregistered variant or a specimen that surfaced after the catalogue was compiled. Survival rates for small-town Castellón issues are unpredictable.

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