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50 Céntimos Albox
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albox |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALBOX 5 Agosto de 1937. CINCUENTA céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Albox August 5, 1937. Fifty Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Pink guilloche underprint with a floral and geometric border frame printed in red. The central vignette presents an allegorical seated female figure rendered in an academic style, holding a pair of scales in one hand and tablets of law in the other, symbolising justice. The denomination is printed in red letterpress below the vignette. |
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Albox is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These consejo municipal issues were a localized stopgap, produced without central authorization and varying wildly in print quality and paper stock from one town to the next.
The Gari Montllor catalog remains the authoritative reference for these Andalusian municipal emissions, and the F suffix in the reference indicates a specific type variant within the Albox 50 céntimos series — worth confirming against the catalog plate before attribution.