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50 Céntimos Bullas
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Bullas (Municipality of Bullas) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#372-G |
| Obverse description | Plain field printed in red letterpress with a geometric square-ruled border framing the entire note. The text is arranged in a simple typographic layout, with a reserved blank space at the lower right corner intended to receive an official dry municipal seal stamp. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0'50 0'50 Pesetas (Translation: 0.50 Pesetas) |
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Bullas is a small wine-producing municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War it was forced to manufacture its own fractional paper currency when coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-change supply pushed the problem down to individual ayuntamientos, many of which had no printing infrastructure whatsoever and improvised accordingly.
The Garicoin (Gari Mon) catalog documents thousands of these emergency locals, and the #372 series for Bullas is among the more obscure entries — surviving examples turn up rarely enough that condition varies wildly between the few known specimens.