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50 Céntimos Sisante
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sisante |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 101 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in black ink on plain paper, enclosed within a simple rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is printed at the top centre, with all issuing and value legends arranged in successive lines below. The overall layout is austere and utilitarian, consistent with locally produced wartime emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAYO 1937 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de SISANTE CERTIFICADO VALOR AL PORTADOR DE 50 céntimos (Translation: May 1937 Municipal Council of Sisante Certificate Value to the bearer of 50 Centimos) |
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Sisante is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla–La Mancha, and like hundreds of similarly sized Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it resorted to issuing its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 when coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — ceased to function in daily commerce. These local vales or billetes de necesidad were authorised under Republican emergency measures but produced entirely at the municipal level, often on whatever printing equipment was locally available.
The Garrido Moraga catalogue gaps for Sisante reflect how poorly documented many Cuenca-area emissions remain.