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50 Céntimos Fuente de Pedro Naharro

Issuer Cooperativa Obrera de Fuente Pedro Naharro
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Letterpress typeset note printed in black ink on grey card stock, enclosed within a decorative border of repeating geometric and floral ornamental units at the corners and along all four sides. The issuer name is set at the top, the denomination in large italic script occupies the centre, and the place and date of issue appear below alongside a reserved space for an official seal; the printer's imprint is set outside the inner border at the foot.
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Reverse description The reverse is wholly unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of the same grey card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind.
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Fuente de Pedro Naharro is a small agricultural municipality in Cuenca province, and this 50 céntimos piece is a product of the Republican zone's chronic small-change crisis during the Civil War. When the hoarding of metallic coinage paralyzed everyday commerce in 1936–37, hundreds of local cooperatives, municipalities, and Republican committees across Spain printed their own emergency fractional currency — the so-called "moneda local de necesidad." This note is one of them.

Printed by Antona in Tarancón, a nearby provincial town, the issuing body was a workers' cooperative rather than a municipal authority — a distinction that mattered politically in 1937. These cooperative-issued pieces often circulated only within the immediate community and were redeemable, in theory, against the cooperative's own stock and accounts.

Gari Mon catalogues this as #679–B, implying at least one variant in the series.

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