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50 Céntimos Albacete
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albacete |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a male worker striking a map of Spain with a hammer, breaking a chain, set against a radiating star burst background in a Socialist Realist style. The denomination '50 CTS.' appears in the upper centre between the issuer's title 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALBACETE', with serial number and 'Serie B.' to the upper right. Three signature lines for El Presidente, El Depositario and El Interventor are arranged below the vignette, with '50 CÉNTIMOS' across the lower margin and '50 CTS.' in the lower-left corner. |
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| Reverse description | Central coat of arms of Albacete flanked by allegorical figures representing the Republic, including a female portrait and a raised fist, rendered within a decorative border typical of Republican-era Spanish emergency issues. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-change circulation forced hundreds of Republican municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional currency — a phenomenon so widespread that the Spanish government eventually tried, with limited success, to regulate it. Albacete's municipal council was an issuer of particular note: the city served as the operational base for the International Brigades from late 1936 onward, meaning these céntimos circulated in an unusually internationalized local economy, passing through the hands of volunteers from across Europe and the Americas buying basics in local shops.
Imprenta Bassa i Pagès in Barcelona handled production for numerous municipal emergency issues during this period, working under significant logistical pressure as the war continued north.