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50 Céntimos Archena
| Issuer | Archena, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#177-A |
| Obverse description | Printed in brownish violet on cream paper, the obverse carries the large numeral '50' at centre, flanked by the issuer legend arching along the top and the bearer clause and emission year inscribed across the middle band. The entire design is enclosed within a rectangular guilloche border with ornamental scroll corners, and three facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower portion beneath the designation lines for El Alcalde, El Secretario, and El Depositario. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brownish violet and displays the face value '50 CÉNTIMOS' in bold lettering at centre, surrounded by geometric guilloche patterns and a ruled rectangular frame. The series letter and serial number appear in black typography, providing the primary control markings on an otherwise unadorned field. |
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Archena is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These tiny paper pieces — often dismissed as ephemeral — were locally authorized, locally circulated, and frequently locally destroyed when the war ended and the Franco regime invalidated Republican-era scrip wholesale.
The Gari Monovar catalog remains the specialist reference for Spanish Civil War municipal issues, and the 177-A designation suggests at least one variant exists within the Archena 50 céntimos series.