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50 Céntimos Fuente la Lancha
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fuente la Lancha |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 53 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned note printed in black letterpress on cream paper stock. The issuer name 'FUENTE LA LANCHA (Córdoba)' appears in the upper portion framed between two horizontal rules, above which 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' is set in bold capitals. The denomination 'Vale por 50 céntimos' occupies the central field, with the date 'Julio, 1937' and a hand-stamped serial number in Gothic script at the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL FUENTE LA LANCHA (Córdoba) Vale por 50 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Fuente la Lancha (Córdoba) Voucher for 50 Centimos July 1937) |
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Fuente la Lancha is a tiny municipality in the Sierra Morena of Córdoba province, and like hundreds of similarly small Republican-held towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when coinage vanished entirely from circulation in 1936–37. The Nationalist advance had severed normal banking channels, and the Madrid government's attempts to centralize small-denomination supply were chronically insufficient. Local councils filled the gap themselves, often printing on whatever stock was available.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented Córdoba provincial series, though surviving examples from villages this small are genuinely difficult to locate.