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50 Céntimos Santa Pola
| Issuer | Santa Pola, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on plain paper, the face is enclosed within an Art Nouveau-style ornamental border of flowing scrollwork at the corners and along the top and bottom edges. The issuer name and denomination are set in decorative script and bold uppercase lettering at centre, with a faint Republican coat of arms serving as an underprint. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion beneath the printed titles of El Alcalde and El Interventor. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in red, the reverse is enclosed within the same Art Nouveau-style scrollwork border as the obverse. The Republican coat of arms of Spain is centrally placed, accompanied by the denomination inscription in bold uppercase lettering. The overall layout is typographic with no additional pictorial vignette. |
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Santa Pola is a small fishing port on the Alicante coast, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it resorted to locally printed fractional paper during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation in Republican-held territory. The decree authorizing municipal emergency issues came from the Valencia-based Republican government in 1936, opening the door to an enormous variety of improvised local currency — quality, longevity, and redemption prospects varying wildly from town to town.
The Gari Mon#1326-C reference places this within the Catalan numismatic cataloguing tradition for Spanish Civil War local issues, suggesting at least one documented variant exists alongside this type.