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50 Céntimos Alpera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alpera |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL · ALPERA · 50 CTS PAPEL MONEDA DE CURSO LOCAL (Translation: Municipal Council · Alpera · 50 Centimos Paper money of local course) |
| Reverse description | Printed in greenish-blue ink with a geometric border frame consistent with the obverse design. The central vignette presents the local municipal coat of arms surmounted by a crown, with inscriptions identifying the issuing authority and denomination arranged around the arms. |
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Alpera is a small municipality in the province of Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha. This 50 céntimos note is one of thousands of emergency paper issues produced by Spanish municipal councils during the Civil War, when the Republic's central government could not adequately supply small-denomination coinage to rural localities. The Consejo Municipal effectively printed its own fractional currency out of necessity — metal had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation by 1936–37.
The Gari Montañà catalogue remains the primary reference for these local Spanish issues, many of which survive in tiny quantities because production runs were small and redemption was often chaotic or never completed.