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50 Céntimos Almería
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almería |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in blue and black inks, with a geometric border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Almería is positioned in the upper left corner, serving as the principal vignette. The remaining surface is occupied by the issuing authority's name and the promise-to-pay legend in period typeset. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream paper stock, entirely blank, consistent with the utilitarian production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Almería's municipal council issued emergency fractional paper during the Spanish Civil War when the collapse of the peseta coinage supply — hoarded, melted, or simply gone from circulation — forced hundreds of Spanish municipalities to print their own small-denomination scrip. These local issues had no formal backing and were redeemable, in theory, only within the issuing municipality's jurisdiction. In practice, many were never redeemed at all.
The Garrido-Moragas reference places this among the better-documented Andalusian municipal emissions, though survival rates for Almería fractional notes remain uneven across the series.