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50 Céntimos La Roda
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Roda |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1937 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL LA RODA (ALBACETE) VALOR AL PORTADOR 50 CENTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council La Roda (Albacete) Value to the bearer 50 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | Valedero hasta 31 de diciembre 1937 El Alcalde. El Depositario. El Interventor. (Translation: Valid until December 31, 1937 / The Mayor. / The Treasurer. / The Comptroller.) |
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La Roda is a small agricultural town in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council was forced to produce its own fractional currency when Republican Spain's small-change supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. Coins had vanished — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and the central government could not fill the gap fast enough. These consejo municipal issues were emergency instruments, authorized under wartime necessity rather than any formal monetary framework.
The Gari Montserrat catalog documents numerous variants from this province alone. Survival rates for La Roda's emissions are low; small-town issues rarely circulated beyond the immediate locality, and few were preserved after the Nationalist victory made them worthless.