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50 Céntimos Antas

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Antas
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ANTAS 50 céntimos 15 de Junio de 1937.
(Translation: Municipal Council of Antas 50 Centimos June 15, 1937.)
Reverse description Printed in dark blue, the reverse is centred on an ornate guilloche oval vignette with the large numeral '50' at its centre, flanked by the word 'Céntimos' on each side. Circular rosette medallions occupy the left and right ends of the composition, surrounded by scrollwork and foliate ornamental borders. A stamped serial number appears in the upper right corner, and a partial printer's imprint is visible along the lower left edge.
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Antas is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns across Republican-held Spain in 1937, its local council issued fractional emergency notes after the Civil War effectively removed metallic coin from everyday commerce. Silver and copper disappeared into hoarding almost immediately after July 1936, and the central government's response — the official *vales* and *moneda provisional* schemes — was slow and uneven in reaching rural Andalusia.

Gari Montllor's cataloguing of these municipal emissions is the primary reference for the series; the -B suffix in this listing typically denotes a variant distinguished by a minor typographic or color difference from the base type.

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