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50 Céntimos Sax
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sax |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange-red on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a geometric border of repeating square dot-matrix patterns forming an outer and inner rectangle. The denomination '50 Cts.' appears in the upper left corner with 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL SAX' running vertically along the left margin and the date '1937' at the lower left. A fine dot-screen underprint covers the central field, over which the large-print legend 'CINCUENTA CENTIMOS DE PESETA' is printed in bold letterpress, with the series designation 'SERIE A' and a handwritten serial number in the upper portion; the issuing authority's manuscript signature of the Alcalde appears in the lower centre, accompanied by a violet official stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Cts. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL SAX 1937 SERIE A Emisión Papel·Moneda de curso obligatorio en la localidad CINCUENTA CENTIMOS DE PESETA EL ALCALDE INDUSTRIAS GRÁFICAS - ORTÍN - ELDA |
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Sax is a small municipality in the Vinalopó valley of Alicante province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's central coin supply collapsed after 1936. These locally printed notes — known collectively as billetes de necesidad — filled the vacuum left by hoarded metal coinage, which effectively vanished from everyday commerce within months of the July uprising.
Industrias Gráficas Ortín in nearby Elda printed for several Vinalopó municipalities during this period, which gives the regional series a degree of consistency unusual among Civil War local issues.