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50 Centimos Security and Assault Corps
| Issuer | Cuerpo de Seguridad y Asalto |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CUERPO DE SEGURIDAD Y ASALTO HABILITACION VALE 50 CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Security and Assault Corps. Authorization. Voucher 50 centimos.) |
| Reverse description | Red letterpress print over an ocher underprint. Three circular vignettes arranged horizontally: the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic at left, the face value at center, and the emblem of the Cuerpo de Seguridad y Asalto at right. |
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The Cuerpo de Seguridad y Asalto — the Republican paramilitary police formed in 1932 — issued its own emergency scrip during the Spanish Civil War, a measure born from the near-total collapse of small-change circulation in the Republican zone by 1937. Local military units, municipalities, trade unions, and even individual businesses all issued fractional currency that year; the Assault Corps notes were simply one strand in that chaotic web of parallel monetary improvisation.
AL#3671 is documented in the Allepuz catalogue of Spanish Civil War local issues, the primary reference for this material.