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50 Céntimos Viso de los Pedroches
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de El Viso (Córdoba) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain orange-tinted card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top, followed by 'EL VISO (Córdoba)' underlined on a central band. The denomination legend 'Vale por 50 céntimos' occupies the centre field, with the date 'Mayo, 1937' at the lower left and a printed serial number at the lower right preceded by the 'Nº' abbreviation. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse of uniform orange-tinted card stock, with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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El Viso de los Pedroches is a small municipality in the northern Sierra Morena reaches of Córdoba province, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the acute small-change famine that paralyzed Republican-held towns across Spain from 1936 onward. With silver coinage hoarded and Republican peseta supply unreliable, hundreds of municipal councils — many of them tiny — issued their own emergency fractional paper under no formal central authorization. El Viso was one of them.
The absence of a Gari Morera catalog number suggests the piece was either unknown or unconfirmed at time of publication — a genuine rarity, or a late discovery.