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50 Céntimos Huércal-Overa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Huércal-Overa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#771-B |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress note with a rectangular guilloche border framing the entire design. To the left, a symbolic vignette groups labour emblems comprising an anvil, mallet, sickle, wheat spikes, and a toothed wheel. To the right, an allegorical female portrait representing the Republic, wearing a Phrygian cap, faces left within a circular frame. The payment obligation text occupies the central field. |
| Reverse lettering | La Caja Municipal de Huércal-Overa pagará al portador, en billetes del Banco de España, la cantidad de CINCUENTA CENTIMOS Huércal-Overa 1º mayo 1937. (Translation: The Huércal-Overa Municipal Fund will pay the bearer, in Bank of Spain banknotes, the amount of Fifty Centimos. Huércal-Overa, 1 May 1937.) |
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Huércal-Overa is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War it found itself without sufficient small-denomination coinage in circulation — Republican authorities had hoarded or melted metal currency, and the fractional coin shortage became acute by 1937. Municipal councils across the Republican zone responded by printing their own paper fractional currency, known collectively as moneda local. The Consejo Municipal de Huércal-Overa was among the smaller issuers; Gari's cataloguing of this as variant B suggests at least two distinguishable types exist for this denomination from this issuer.
These municipal emissions had no formal backing and were theoretically redeemable only within the issuing locality.