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50 Céntimos Albánchez
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albánchez |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green underprint with a geometric guilloche border enclosing the note on all sides, interspersed with floral ornamental motifs. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centred, flanked by the date of issue in letterpress typography. The issuing authority, Consejo Municipal de Albánchez, and the denomination cincuenta céntimos appear in dark letterpress text within the decorative surround. |
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| Reverse description | A geometric guilloche border frames the reverse on all sides, with symmetrical ornamental vignettes flanking the large central numeral denomination. The denomination is stated in both numeral and word form in dark letterpress text against an otherwise plain background. |
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Albánchez is a small village in the Sierra de los Filabres, Almería province — during the Civil War, dozens of municipalities across Republican-held Andalusia resorted to printing their own fractional emergency currency when coin circulation collapsed entirely. The Consejo Municipal issues were typically authorised locally with no central oversight, which is why typographic quality, paper stock, and authorisation wording vary so dramatically even within a single series.
The Gari Mon reference places this within the documented Andalusian municipal corpus, but many notes from villages this size survive in single-digit quantities.