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50 Céntimos Vallibona
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Vallibona |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on plain grey paper stock in dark brown letterpress throughout. Four bold horizontal rules occupy the upper-left quadrant, with the denomination '50 céntimos' set in large type to the upper right; the issuing authority legend 'EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / Vallibona' is centred in the main field, separated by a small ornamental vertical bar motif. The promise-to-pay clause 'Pagará al portador 50 céntimos' is set in bold type across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet rubber stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Vallibona applied to the reverse, serving as official authentication. |
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Vallibona is a village in the Ports comarca of Castellón — its 1937 population was under 300 people. Like dozens of similarly isolated Republican municipalities during the Civil War, the local council issued its own fractional emergency currency when the peseta coinage supply collapsed entirely. The Banco de España had suspended silver and bronze coin production, and the central government's cardboard selos habilitados weren't reaching everywhere.
The validation stamp is the only security measure — entirely typical for this class of issue, where the council's rubber stamp was the sole thing distinguishing legal tender from blank paper.