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50 Céntimos Albox
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albox |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 67 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in green on cream paper, the face is enclosed within a floral and geometric ornamental border. The denomination numeral '50' and the word 'Céntimos' are set centrally in bold type, with the issuing authority legend arranged across the upper field. A circular blue handstamp of the Ayuntamiento Republicano de Albox (Almería) is applied over the lower left area as an official validation seal. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALBOX 50 Céntimos Valedero solamente en este termino (Translation: Municipal Council of Albox 50 Centimos Valid only in this municipality) |
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Albox is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional notes when the Republican government's copper and nickel coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the disruption of war. These local issues were authorized under a 1936 decree permitting ayuntamientos and consejos to produce their own low-denomination paper to keep daily commerce moving.
The Gari Morera catalogue documents enormous variation across the Almería provincial issues, and Albox's series is among the less commonly encountered ones — provincial isolation and small print runs combined to make survivors genuinely scarce.