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50 Céntimos Velilla de Ebro
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Velilla de Ebro |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the note is framed by a geometric border with the denomination 50 CENTIMOS at centre. A vignette to the left presents the emblem of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon set before two mill wheels, evoking the locality's industrial character. Inscriptions record the issuing authority and the date of issue, 24 November 1937, with a redeemability clause referencing the municipal treasury. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse carries a geometric perimeter frame enclosing a panoramic vignette of the town of Velilla de Ebro rendered as a landscape underprint across the lower field. The denomination and issuing authority appear in bold letterpress above the vignette. |
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Velilla de Ebro is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Small copper and silver coins were hoarded, melted, or simply ceased to be produced as the war disrupted normal monetary channels — leaving communities to print their own solutions.
These municipally issued cartones, as they were commonly called, had no backing beyond local trust and the council's authority. Most were printed in tiny runs and survived only by accident.