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50 Céntimos Alhambra
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alhambra |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with no pictorial vignette. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL is set in bold capitals at the top, separated from ALHAMBRA by two horizontal rules, followed by the denomination Vale por 50 céntimos in a larger typeface at centre. A hand-stamped serial number appears at lower right, with the date Julio, 1937 at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALHAMBRA Vale por 50 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Alhambra Valid for 50 Centimos July, 1937) |
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Alhambra is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile–La Mancha, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the acute small-change crisis that paralyzed Republican-held Spain in the early months of the Civil War. As silver and copper coins were hoarded or melted, hundreds of Spanish municipalities were forced to print their own emergency fractional currency — a chaotic but practically necessary response to a collapsing monetary infrastructure.
The thick card stock construction was deliberate: flimsier paper degraded quickly in daily retail use, and municipal authorities with no printing expertise often turned to whatever heavier stock was locally available.