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50 Céntimos Galera

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Galera
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
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Reverse description Plain cream paper with a double-rule rectangular border in brown, enclosing the authorising text in letterpress. A vertical panel on the left carries the denomination in brown, while a vertical panel on the right contains the nullification clause in smaller type. Signature lines for the Depositario, Alcalde, and Secretario Interventor appear in the centre field, with a circular municipal stamp in violet overlapping the text. The printer's imprint appears at the foot.
Reverse lettering 50 cts. Por acuerdo del Consejo Municipal de 17 Octubre 1937. El Depositario, D. Garcia El Alcalde, El Secretario Interventor, S. Domingo A. Fernández Este billete quedará nulo y sin ningún valor al ser doblado. IMP. BELMONTE.-HUESCAR
(Translation: 50 Centimos By agreement of the Municipal Council of 17 October 1937. The Depositary, D. Garcia The Mayor, The Secretary-Comptroller, S. Domingo A. Fernández This banknote will be null and void when it is folded. Printed by Belmonte, Huéscar)
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Galera is a small municipality in the Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. The Consejo Municipal stepped in to fill the gap with locally printed paper.

Imprenta Belmonte in Huéscar — the comarca's main town, roughly 10 km away — handled production for several of these small-municipality issues. The Gari Mon reference remains unassigned, reflecting how poorly documented the granular local issues of Republican Spain still are.

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