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0.50 Pesetas Viveros
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Viveros |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream ground printed entirely in red by letterpress, with the issuer name in two lines at the top — 'Consejo Municipal de' above the enlarged town name 'VIVEROS' — separated from the denomination 'Vale 0'50 ptas.' by a double horizontal rule. A sequential serial number field reading 'NUM.' in red with the handstamped numeral in black appears at lower right. The entire design is enclosed within a rectangular dotted-dash border of rounded corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de VIVEROS Vale 0`50 ptas. NUM. (Translation: Municipal Council of Viveros Value 0.50 Pesetas / No.) |
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Viveros is a small municipality in Albacete province, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued fractional paper currency to address the acute shortage of small coin that had all but vanished from circulation by late 1936. The Republican government's decree authorizing local emergency emissions gave administrative cover to these issues, but production quality and design varied enormously from one ayuntamiento to the next.
The Garicano-Montoya reference places this within the documented Albacete provincial series, though surviving examples from Viveros are scarce enough that census data on this specific emission remains thin.