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50 Céntimos Villajoyosa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villajoyosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Reddish-brown letterpress text on a blue geometric underprint, with a radiant sun vignette centered at the top. The face carries the full payment obligation inscription in Spanish, dated 24 May 1937, within a structured typographic layout framed by simple geometric ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | = 50 = cèntimos. EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de VILLAJOYOSA pagará al portador cincuenta céntimos de peseta. Villajoyosa 24 Mayo 1937. (Translation: 50 Centimos. The Municipal Council of Villajoyosa will pay the bearer fifty céntimos of peseta. Villajoyosa, 24 May 1937.) |
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Villajoyosa — a small coastal town in Alicante province — was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central government failed to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination coin. These local issues, collectively known as "moneda municipal" or "papel moneda local," filled an immediate transactional gap but were legally precarious from the start, tolerated rather than formally authorized.
The Gari Montllor catalogue reference places this among the documented Alicante provincial issues, though survival rates for notes of this physical size and paper weight are poor — the format was never meant to last.