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50 Céntimos Santa Magdalena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santa Magdalena de Pulpis |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black ink on coarse card stock, enclosed within a single rectangular border with a double rule and dotted ornamental band separating the issuer inscription from the denomination field. The issuer legend is set in two lines at the top in uppercase and mixed-case type. The bold numeral value "25 cts." occupies the lower half of the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Santa Magdalena 25 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Santa Magdalena 25 Centimos) |
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Santa Magdalena de Pulpis is a small municipality in Castellón province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the hoarding of metal coins — particularly copper and silver — created an acute small-change crisis across the country by mid-1937. These hyper-local emissions, collectively catalogued under the broader "guerra civil" municipal issues, were authorized under the decentralized wartime economy rather than by any single banking authority.
The thick card format is characteristic of improvised local production, likely printed on whatever stock was available rather than purpose-made banknote paper. At 43 × 35 mm, this is among the smallest pieces in the Republican municipal series.