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50 Céntimos Doña María-Ocaña
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Doña María-Ocaña |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de DOÑA MARIA-OCAÑA 25 Noviembre 1937. CINCUENTA céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Doña María-Ocaña November 25, 1937. Fifty Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress text on a light red geometric underprint with a repeating guilloche-style pattern enclosed by a geometric border, with the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic printed in the centre. |
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Doña María-Ocaña is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Republican government never fully solved the small-change crisis; local bodies filled the gap themselves, with wildly inconsistent results in terms of materials, authorization, and design quality.
The Gari Mon reference being incomplete signals how thinly documented many of these Almería municipals remain — survivorship is low, and cataloguing has lagged behind collector interest.