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50 Céntimos Colomera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Colomera |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in black on cream paper, with a rectangular border composed of a repeating dash-and-dot pattern. The issuer's name 'Consejo Municipal' appears in large serif type at the top, with 'Colomera (Granada)' in smaller type below. The denomination '0.50 céntimos' is set in bold type at the foot, separated from the upper text by two horizontal rules, with a circular violet official municipality stamp applied by hand across the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Colomera (Granada) 0`50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council Colomera (Granada) 0.50 Centimos) |
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Colomera is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued fractional paper currency in 1936–37 to address the acute shortage of small coin. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate change at the local level pushed this responsibility onto ayuntamientos and consejos with no printing infrastructure to speak of — which is precisely what you're looking at here.
These hyper-local emissions were produced in tiny quantities and almost never left the town where they circulated. Survival depends almost entirely on whether a single hoard was preserved.