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50 Céntimos Albondón
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Albondón (Municipality of Albondón) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO DE ALBONDÓN Vale por 50 céntimos No es válido sin sello y firma (Translation: City Council of Albondón Valid for 50 Céntimos Not valid without seal and signature) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a hand-applied circular official stamp in reddish-purple ink reading 'Ayuntamiento Constitucional' with municipal arms at centre, accompanied by a manuscript signature in black ink across the middle of the note, as required for validity per the obverse clause. |
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Albondón is a small municipality in the Alpujarra region of Granada province, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it issued emergency fractional paper during the Civil War years to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Gari Mon catalogue documents these municipal emissions — many produced with nothing more sophisticated than a local rubber stamp and an official's signature — and the 60-B reference places this squarely in that improvised wartime framework.
The manuscript signature and applied stamp are the only authentication the issuing authority could manage. For a village in the Alpujarras in 1936–39, that was simply the reality.