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50 Céntimos Mecina Bombarón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mecina Bombarón |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Cts. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MECINA BOMBARON (Granada) VALE PROVISIONAL (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council Mecina Bombarón (Granada) Provisional voucher) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Mecina Bombarón is a small village in the Alpujarras region of Granada province, and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1936 effectively sanctioned local money production to address the acute shortage of small coin. The Consejo Municipal issues from this area are among the most obscure in the entire war-era local currency canon — production was purely functional, quality was incidental, and many villages used whatever paper, ink, and rubber stamps were at hand.
The Gari Monetary catalogue reference is incomplete, which is not unusual for Alpujarran villages of this size. Surviving examples are genuinely rare simply because so few were made and fewer were kept.