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50 Céntimos Motril
| Issuer | Comité Central Permanente de Enlace U.H.P. de Motril |
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| Size | 80 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-toned paper note printed entirely in black letterpress, with all text arranged in a central field enclosed by a continuous ornamental border of repeated floral and scroll motifs. The issuing authority appears at the top in bold uppercase lettering, followed by the acronym U.H.P. in large spaced capitals, the town name MOTRIL, and the denomination 50 CENTIMOS in the largest typeface on the note. A disclaimer clause in smaller italic script at the foot of the text field restricts the note's legal tender to the municipal boundaries of Motril. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse on plain cream-toned paper, showing only the natural texture of the stock with no design, text, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Motril, a coastal town in Granada province, was one of hundreds of Republican municipalities that printed emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after small coins vanished from circulation almost immediately in 1936. The U.H.P. — Uníos Hermanos Proletarios — was a workers' unity slogan turned organizational banner, adopted by the socialist-anarchist alliance; its appearance on local scrip is a direct index of who held effective authority in that town during the conflict.
The Gari Montaner catalog remains the primary reference for this material, and the 978-C designation suggests multiple emission variants exist within this denomination. Local Civil War issues from smaller Andalusian towns are notoriously difficult to attribute precisely — surviving quantities were small, and wartime destruction was thorough.