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50 Céntimos Adra

Issuer Ayuntamiento de Adra (Municipality of Adra)
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Reference(s) Gari Mon#10-B
Obverse description Plain letterpress-printed face in black ink, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuer name appears underlined as a typographic emphasis, with the denomination and validity clause set in a straightforward typeface across the field. The austere, text-only layout is characteristic of locally produced Civil War emergency emergency issues.
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Reverse description Unprinted plain grey-toned paper stock, carrying a manuscript authorizing signature as the sole element validating the note for circulation.
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Adra is a small coastal municipality in Almería, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally-issued emergency paper during the Civil War when Republican-zone coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. These municipal notes — technically vales or billetes de necesidad — were produced with whatever printing resources were at hand, often a local press or stationery shop, which accounts for the enormous variation in production quality across the series.

The Gari Mon catalogue suffix "-B" indicates a distinct variety, likely a paper or color variant rather than a separate issue date.

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