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50 Céntimos Valdealgorfa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valdealgorfa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper, the note is framed by a continuous interlaced geometric border with scroll-work corner ornaments. The issuer's name, CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de Valdealgorfa, runs across the top in bold uppercase letterpress, while the large denomination numeral and text '50 céntimos' occupies the central field in a decorative typeface. The lower section carries the mandatory-circulation and redemption legend in smaller roman type, flanked by a small stylised insect or floral vignette at centre-bottom, with the date 'Mayo 1937' to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de Valdealgorfa 50 céntimos De curso obligatorio en la localidad y canjeable en Depositaría Mayo 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Valdealgorfa / 50 Centimos / Mandatory currency in the locality and redeemable at the Depository / May 1937.) |
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Valdealgorfa is a small agricultural municipality in Teruel, Aragon — squarely within the Republican zone during the early years of the Civil War. Like hundreds of similarly isolated towns, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 because the Republic's central government had utterly failed to supply enough small-denomination coinage. Silver had been hoarded or melted, and bronze production couldn't keep pace with wartime demand.
These hyper-local emissions are catalogued under Gari's regional reference system rather than the standard Pick series, reflecting just how fragmented Republican monetary administration had become by mid-war. Many Teruel-area municipals were destroyed or lost entirely when Nationalist forces took the region in early 1938.