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50 Céntimos Chirivel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Chirivel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Consejo Municipal de CHIRIVEL Vale por cincuenta céntimos Agosto 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Chirivel Valid for Fifty Centimos August 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper with a single typeset serial number applied in black ink at centre, the only element on an otherwise entirely blank reverse. |
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Chirivel is a small municipality in the Almería province of southeastern Spain. Like hundreds of similarly isolated Republican-held towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after metallic coin all but vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These municipally printed pieces were never intended to travel far; they functioned within the village economy and were frequently repudiated the moment Republican administrative authority shifted or collapsed.
The Garicano Monerris reference gap reflects how incompletely documented the Almería municipal issues remain — many are known from single survivors.