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50 Céntimos Fortuna
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Fortuna (Municipality of Fortuna) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 67 × 44 mm |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper printed entirely in letterpress within a double-rule rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears at top center, below which the full obligation text is set in a combination of uppercase and mixed-case type, culminating in the issue date of 22 February 1937. |
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| Protection description | Violet oval municipal rubber stamp applied to the reverse as the sole authentication device. |
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Fortuna is a small inland municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it was cut off from the national money supply. The Republican government's emergency decree of 1936 authorized local authorities to issue their own fractional currency — these so-called "billetes locales" filled the vacuum left by hoarded coins, which had disappeared almost entirely from circulation by mid-1937.
Production was purely local, which accounts for the crude printing quality typical of the series. The official stamp was the primary guarantee of legitimacy — without it, the notes were worthless even within the town itself.