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50 Céntimos Mecina Bombarón
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Mecina Bombarón (Province of Granada) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Protection type | Official seal, Handwritten signature |
| Protection description | Red oval municipality hand stamp applied to the reverse; handwritten ink signature overlapping the seal, as required by the validity clause on the obverse. |
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Mecina Bombarón is a small municipality in the Alpujarras district of Granada, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it issued its own fractional paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local authorities to produce emergency small change. The national coinage had effectively disappeared — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — leaving municipalities to fill the gap with whatever printing resources they had locally.
At 61 x 44 mm, this is genuinely tiny even by wartime local issue standards. The authentication rests entirely on an official seal and a single handwritten signature — minimal security by any measure, but typical of the smallest Alpujarran pueblos working without access to proper printing infrastructure.