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50 Céntimos La Unión
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Unión |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LA UNIÓN ABONARÁ AL PORTADOR EN PAPEL MONEDA DE CURSO LEGAL EN ESPAÑA Cincuenta Céntimos La Unión, Junio 1937 República Española 50 CENTIMOS (Translation: The Municipal Council of La Unión Will pay the bearer in legal Paper Money in Spain Fifty Centimos La Unión, June 1937 Spanish Republic 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the reverse is enclosed within a continuous border of stylized rose vignettes mirroring the obverse design. The central field bears the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, surrounded by a geometric guilloche frame, with the denomination expressed in numeral form below. |
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La Unión, a mining town in Murcia, issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 as the Republican zone's small-change crisis deepened — silver and copper had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-war, hoarded or melted. Municipal councils across Spain filled the gap with locally printed paper, and the Consejo Municipal de La Unión was one of hundreds doing exactly that.
The Gari Montaner catalogue documents this as reference 1495-C, implying at least two earlier types in the local series. Survival rates for Spanish Civil War municipal sueltos vary enormously by town; La Unión examples are not frequently encountered, likely due to small original print runs and the town's economic disruption following the fall of the Republican southeast in 1939.