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50 Céntimos Albudeite
| Issuer | Albudeite, Municipality of |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | PAPEL MONEDA Circulación Local MUNICIPIO DE ALBUDEITE VALE por 50 céntimos Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España (Translation: Paper Money Local circulation Municipality of Albudeite Voucher for 50 Centimos Guaranteed with banknotes from the Bank of Spain) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on aged cream paper stock, bearing no text, imagery, or decorative elements, consistent with the economical production standards typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Albudeite is a small municipality in the Murcia region of Spain, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued emergency paper money during the Civil War period when the Republic's coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These local issues, known as billetes locales or moneda local, were produced under desperate improvised conditions, often on whatever paper stock was locally available, printed by whatever means the town hall could manage.
Gari Mon#64-A places this firmly within the documented Murcian issues, though surviving examples from villages of Albudeite's size are genuinely uncommon — small print runs, heavy local use, and no organized redemption.