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50 Céntimos Baza
| Issuer | Baza, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green, the note displays the municipal coat of arms of Baza at the top center, surrounded by a geometric rectangular border. The issuer name is rendered in bold underlined lettering within the framed field, with denomination and legal text arranged in structured letterpress typography. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Céntimos CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BAZA (Granada) Certificado de moneda legal Reembolsable por la Caja Municipal contra su presentación Baza, 1.º de Septiembre de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Baza (Granada) Legal currency certificate Reimbursable by the Municipal Fund against its presentation Baza, September 1, 1937.) |
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Baza is a small town in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money when coin shortages became acute on the Republican side. These local emergency notes — often called "billetes de necesidad" — were produced under improvised conditions, typically by local printers with whatever materials were at hand. Quality and surviving quantities vary enormously from town to town.
The Gari Monetary catalogue reference places this squarely within that Republican-zone municipal series. Few of these small-denomination Baza pieces have surfaced in major auction records.