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50 Céntimos Alquife
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alquife |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
| Obverse description | Typeset design printed in violet-purple ink on plain cream paper. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL appears in large serif lettering across the upper portion, beneath which a horizontal banner cartouche in a geometric Art Deco style carries the locality name ALQUIFE flanked on either side by the denomination numerals 50 and the abbreviation CTS., all set within angular bracket-and-comb ornamental frames. A faint circular control stamp impression is visible in the upper field. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALQUIFE 50 CTS. (Translation: Municipal Council Alquife 50 Centimos) |
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Alquife is a small mining village in Granada province, and its wartime scrip emerged from the same acute coin shortage that drove hundreds of Spanish municipalities to print their own emergency paper during the Civil War years. The Consejo Municipal — functioning as a de facto local authority under Republican administration — issued these low-denomination céntimos notes precisely because small change had effectively vanished from everyday commerce by 1936–37.
The Gari Mon reference remains unassigned, suggesting this piece either escaped systematic cataloguing or survives in very limited numbers known to specialists.