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50 Céntimos Fondón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fondón |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and violet on pink paper, the note is framed by a decorative violet letterpress border with dotted and geometric ornamental elements at the corners, including stylised fan and sunburst motifs in green. The denomination '50 CTS.' appears in bold green letterpress at the left, flanked by vertical arrow-pattern decorative rules, while the issuing authority title 'Consejo Municipal de Fondón' is rendered in green script lettering across the upper centre. The body text states the redemption obligation in violet cursive and block lettering, with a space reserved for the depositary signature and a faint circular stamp visible at centre; the printer's imprint 'PAPELERIA LACOSTE - ALMERIA' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on pink paper stock, showing natural aging and foxing consistent with the Civil War emergency issue period. |
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Fondón is a small village in the Alpujarra region of Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin shortages made small transactions impossible. The Consejo Municipal's 50 céntimos note is catalogued under Gari Mon #656-B, placing it within the well-documented but numerically vast body of Spanish local war issues — over a thousand municipalities did the same between 1936 and 1939.
Papelería Lacoste in Almería handled printing for several Alpujarran municipalities during this period, which occasionally makes distinguishing between village issues a matter of close typographic inspection rather than obvious visual difference.