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50 Céntimos Zalamea de la Serena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Zalamea de la Serena |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset emergency voucher printed in black on coarse buff paper. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL and ZALAMEA DE LA SERENA appear in bold letterpress at the top, each line separated by a horizontal rule. The denomination Vale por 50 céntimos is set in the centre, with the date Julio, 1937 at lower left and a serial number in large bold numerals at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ZALAMEA DE LA SERENA Vale por 50 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Zalamea de la Serena Voucher for 50 Centimos July, 1937) |
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Zalamea de la Serena is a small municipality in the Badajoz province of Extremadura — territory that changed hands violently in the early months of the Spanish Civil War. By 1937, the Republican zone was suffering acute shortages of fractional coinage, prompting hundreds of municipal councils across loyalist Spain to issue their own emergency paper. This note is one such locally-authorized emergency voucher, produced to fill the gap left by hoarded or melted metal.
The Gari catalogue reference places it firmly within the broader *billetes locales* phenomenon. Few were printed; fewer still survived postwar.