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50 Céntimos Fuente de Pedro Naharro
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera de Fuente Pedro Naharro |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Cooperativa Obrera de Fuente P. Naharro Vale por 50 Cts. Fuente Septiembre de 1937. Sello Antona-Tarancón (Translation: Workers' Cooperative of Fuente Pedro Naharro / Voucher for 50 Centimos / Fuente, September 1937. / Seal / Antona-Tarancón) |
| 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.