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50 Céntimos Yecla
| Issuer | Asociación del Comercio e Industria de Yecla |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | N.° [serial] SERIE A N.° [serial] Asociación del Comercio e Industria YECLA Para facilitar el cambio de moneda, Vale por CINCUENTA CENTIMOS canjeable por Billetes del Banco de España y cuyo valor está depositado en Bancos de esta plaza. Yecla, Mayo 1937 El Presidente, [signature] El Tesorero, [signature] (Translation: Trade and Industry Association Yecla To facilitate currency exchange, Voucher for Fifty Centimos exchangeable for Banknotes of the Bank of Spain and whose value is deposited in Banks in this place. Yecla, May 1937 The President, [signature] The Treasurer, [signature]) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper printed in red with the denomination 'CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS' in bold capitals across the top, followed by the issuer name in a smaller display typeface. A short decorative red rule divides the heading from the lower portion, which carries the authorization legend 'AUTORIZADO por el Ayuntamiento' in red at the left with a handwritten signature below. To the right, a large circular violet ink stamp of the Alcaldía of Yecla, bearing the municipal coat of arms and the legend 'REPÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA – ALCALDÍA CONSTITUCIONAL – YECLA', validates the issue. |
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Yecla, a small town in Murcia, was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities forced to issue emergency fractional scrip during 1937 as the Republican government struggled to maintain coin circulation across a fragmented war economy. The Asociación del Comercio e Industria — a local merchants' and industrialists' association — stepped in as issuing authority not out of institutional ambition but sheer necessity: copper and nickel coins had effectively vanished from everyday trade, hoarded or melted down.
These local issues were never intended to circulate beyond the town boundaries, and most were redeemed or simply discarded once the war ended. Surviving examples from Yecla are genuinely scarce in the Garicano Moner corpus, where this issue is catalogued under a single variant designation.