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50 Céntimos Valbona
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valbona |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE VALBONA (Teruel) 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Valbona (Teruel) 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Entirely blank on plain white card stock, with no printing, overprint, or decorative element of any kind, reflecting the minimal production standards typical of this wartime local emergency issue. |
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Valbona is a small municipality in the province of Teruel, Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These locally-printed municipal pieces — collectively catalogued under Spain's vast sello-moneda and papel moneda documentation — were produced under whatever materials were at hand, which explains the card stock construction. They circulated only within the issuing municipality, accepted by local shopkeepers as a matter of practical necessity rather than legal obligation.
The Gari Mon reference places this squarely within the documented Aragonese issues, though survival rates for Valbona pieces are low given the town's size and the chaotic end of Republican-controlled Teruel in early 1938.