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50 Céntimos Mateo de las Fuentes
| Issuer | Colectividad de Campesinos U.G.T., Mateo de las Fuentes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed on thick cream card stock in black ink, the face is enclosed within a repetitive geometric border of small floral and square motifs running along all four edges. The issuing authority is set in two lines at the top, with the denomination in larger cursive script at centre and the municipality name in small capitals below. A handwritten serial number appears at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad de Campesinos U. G. T. Vale por 50 ctms. MATEO DE LAS FUENTES (Translation: Peasant Collectivity Voucher for 50 Centimos Mateo de las Fuentes) |
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One of hundreds of locally issued emergency notes produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The U.G.T. (Unión General de Trabajadores) agricultural collective at Mateo de las Fuentes — a village in the Murcia region — issued this note as a functional internal currency, valid within the collective's economic sphere and essentially worthless outside it.
Thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale: small pieces of plain paper were too easily forged or confused with scraps. The Gari catalogue documents over nine hundred variants of these Republican-zone local issues, and condition survival is almost entirely a matter of chance.