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50 Céntimos María
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de María |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink, with a rectangular border composed of small square ornaments forming the perimeter frame. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority text arranged centrally and across the face of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de MARIA Vale por cincuenta céntimos Mayo, 1937. 0`50 (Translation: Municipal Council of María Valid for Fifty Centimos May 1937.) |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes issued by Spanish municipal councils during the Civil War, when the Republic's coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by the war economy. The Consejo Municipal of María, a small Almería province village, issued this 50 céntimos note in 1937 to keep local commerce functional at a moment when the central government could supply neither coins nor confidence.
The Gari Mon 884-B designation distinguishes it from at least one other María emission, suggesting the council issued more than one type. Rural Almería remained under Republican control through much of 1937, but supply chains were fractured enough that even village-level scrip had real transactional necessity.