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50 Céntimos Guadahortuna

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Guadahortuna
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse lettering Consejo Municipal Vale 50 cts. GUADAHORTUNA
(Translation: Municipal Council It's worth 50 Céntimos Guadahortuna)
Reverse description Reverse left largely plain on unprinted grey paper stock, bearing a faint partial oval control stamp impression in violet-blue ink, the text of which is largely illegible due to light inking.
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Guadahortuna is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, its local council issued emergency fractional paper money during the Civil War when small coin essentially vanished from circulation. The Consejo Municipal issues of this period were purely local instruments — accepted in the immediate vicinity and worthless beyond it. Many were printed on whatever stock was available, sometimes using office supplies or local print shops with no banking infrastructure whatsoever.

The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented Andalusian municipal series, but survival rates for these hyperlocal issues are unpredictable. Some towns issued hundreds of thousands; others printed only a few hundred pieces before being overrun or reorganized.

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