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50 Céntimos Los Gallardos
| Issuer | Los Gallardos, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the note carries a geometric border frame enclosing the text. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left. Letterpress text identifies the issuing Municipal Council, the denomination, and the date of issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | Céntimos 50 Céntimos |
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Los Gallardos is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Generalitat and central Republican government repeatedly promised solutions to the small-change crisis; none arrived quickly enough for rural Almería, so local councils printed their own.
Gari Mon#693-B suggests a second type or variant within the Los Gallardos series — worth checking against the first type, as differences between variants in these municipal issues are often nothing more than a change in serial numbering ink or a slight shift in stamp color.