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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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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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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) |
| Reverse description | Completely blank reverse on plain cream card stock, bearing no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind, with only the natural texture and age-toning of the thick paper support visible. |
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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.