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50 Céntimos Sella
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sella |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on plain paper, the note is framed within an ornate rectangular border of interlaced floral and foliate motifs with circular corner medallions. The issuer legend 'Consejo Municipal - SELLA' runs across the top in bold capitals, with the denomination 'CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS' centred in large bold type below and the numeral '50' repeated at each upper corner. Two manuscript signatures occupy the lower portion, ascribed respectively to El Alcalde and El Interventor. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal - SELLA CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS 50 50 El Alcalde, El Interventor, (Translation: Municipal Council - Sella / Fifty / Centimos / The Mayor / The Comptroller) |
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Sella is a small municipality in the Alicante province of Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1937. These consejo municipal issues were produced with whatever printing resources were locally available — often a job printer in the nearest sizable town — and authorized under the chaotic framework of wartime municipal autonomy rather than any central banking structure.
The Gari Montenegro reference remaining unnumbered indicates this piece had not been fully catalogued at time of publication, which is not unusual for the smaller Alicante provincial issuers. Survivorship is largely a matter of accident.