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50 Céntimos Rubielos de Mora
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Rubielos de Mora |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design enclosed within a decorative floral and geometric border. A small vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears in the upper left corner, flanking the issuer inscription; below, the note follows a cheque-style layout with printed fields for series, serial number, date, and bearer payment obligation. Validation is provided by an applied circular official stamp of the Municipal Council of Rubielos de Mora and two manuscript signatures beneath the printed designation lines for El Presidente and El Secretario. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE RUBIELOS DE MORA (Teruel) Serie A / Núm. Pagará al Portador 50 céntimos Rubielos de Mora...de...de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Rubielos de Mora (Teruel) Series A / No. Will pay the Bearer 50 centimos Rubielos de Mora...from...from 1937.) |
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Rubielos de Mora is a small hilltop town in Teruel province, and in 1937 it was deep within the Republican zone as the Aragonese front ground on. Like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities that year, the local council issued emergency fractional notes to plug the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage — silver and copper hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936. These town-issued pieces, known collectively as "billetes locales" or "papel moneda municipal," were legally tolerated by the Republican government as a stopgap but never formally sanctioned at the national level.
Survival rates for Teruel municipal issues are uneven; the town changed hands violently during the Battle of Teruel in late 1937 into 1938, and much locally-held paper was lost or destroyed in that fighting.