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50 Céntimos Fines
| Issuer | Fines, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 cts. VALE PROVISIONAL Consejo Municipal de Fines Canjeable Papel Moneda del Estado (Translation: 50 Centimos Provisional voucher Municipal Council of Fines Exchangeable Paper Money of the State) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, bearing no printed design or lettering, consistent with the expedient production methods employed for Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency issued in the province of Almería, Andalusia. |
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Municipal emergency notes from the Spanish Civil War period are common enough as a category, but individual pueblo issues vary wildly in survival rates. Fines, a small municipality in Valencia, issued these 50 céntimos notes as part of the broader breakdown of small-change supply that plagued the Republican zone from 1936 onward — the hoarding of metallic coin and the flight of the peseta created a vacuum that hundreds of local ayuntamientos filled with their own improvised paper.
The Gari Monetary catalog reference without a number indicates the piece is either unlisted or awaiting formal attribution. Treat provenance documentation carefully.