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5 Céntimos Abarán
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Abarán (Municipality of Abarán) |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Circular cream-colored cardboard token with violet-printed text arranged within a double-line border framing the perimeter. The central field carries the issuing authority legend and denomination inscriptions in Latin script. The overall presentation is typographic, without pictorial devices, consistent with wartime emergency issue cardboard coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-colored cardboard reverse, bearing an applied circular municipal stamp impression and a handwritten or printed serial number in green ink. The reverse is otherwise unadorned, serving primarily as an authentication surface for the emergency issue. |
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Abarán is a small municipality in Murcia, and like dozens of Spanish towns, it resorted to locally issued cardboard emergency money during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation by 1936–37, hoarded or melted as metal became strategically valuable. These municipal issues were strictly local instruments — accepted at the baker's, the cooperative, nowhere else.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains the primary reference for Spanish Civil War local issues, and the #3-H designation places this among a small numbered sequence from Abarán, suggesting at least several distinct denominations or types were authorized by the ayuntamiento.