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50 Céntimos Campos del Río
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Campos del Río |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note with a dotted rectangular border frame enclosing all text, printed in dark blue letterpress with the serial number in red at upper right. A circular municipal stamp in violet is applied at the left, partly overlapping the text field. Two signature lines appear in the lower centre, attributed to El Alcalde and El Depositario, with a handwritten signature present under the latter. The guarantee clause at the foot is rendered with a strikethrough line through the words referencing Banco de España banknotes. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A Nº 00668 Ayuntamiento de Campos del Río Circulación local Vale por 50 céntimos El Alcalde El Depositario Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España (Translation: Series A / No. 00668 / City Council of Campos del Río / Local circulation / Value for 50 céntimos / The Mayor / The Treasurer / Guaranteed with banknotes from the Bank of Spain) |
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Campos del Río is a small municipality in the Murcia region, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of locally issued emergency pieces that flooded Spain after the Civil War's outbreak in 1936 disrupted coin supply almost immediately. The Republican government's inability to maintain metallic circulation forced municipalities — some with populations in the low hundreds — to print their own fractional paper. Many of these issues survive in tiny quantities simply because production runs were small and the towns themselves were small.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains the definitive reference for these Spanish Civil War municipal issues, and the -B suffix here indicates a secondary variety within the type.