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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Adra |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal ADRA (Almería) Vale a la circulación local. DOS pesetas (Translation: Municipal Council Adra (Almeria) Valid for local circulation. Two Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted yellowish-buff paper reverse carrying a single handstamped serial number in black ink at centre; the field is otherwise entirely blank, with no typeset text, vignette, or ornamentation. |
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Adra is a small coastal municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's central supply of coinage collapsed in 1936–37. These municipal issues — collectively catalogued under the billetes locales or papel moneda local category — were almost always produced locally on whatever paper stock was available, which accounts for the extraordinary variation in quality and survival rates across the series.
The Gari Monar reference number being absent here suggests the piece is either unverified within that catalogue or awaiting formal attribution — not unusual for the smaller Andalusian issues, where documentation remains incomplete.