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0.50 Pesetas Agres

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Agres
Year 1937
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Reference(s) Gari Mon#17-D
Obverse description Typeset letterpress note printed in violet ink, with the issuer name underlined at the top and the redemption text arranged in centered lines below. A geometric guilloche underprint fills the background. The text is framed by simple ruled borders consistent with wartime emergency issue typography.
Obverse lettering Consejo Municipal de Agres La Depositaría de este Consejo reintegrará al portador 0`50 pesetas
(Translation: Municipal Council of Agres The depository of this Council will reimburse the bearer 0.50 Pesetas)
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Agres is a small municipality in the comarca of El Comtat, Alicante province. During the Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and hundreds of Spanish municipalities responded by issuing their own emergency paper fractionals. These are collectively known as billetes locales or moneda fiduciaria municipal, and Agres produced at least the series catalogued under Gari Mon #17.

The Consejo Municipal designation rather than Ayuntamiento reflects the wartime reorganization of local government under Republican administration after July 1936.

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