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50 Céntimos Pétrola
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Pétrola |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1109-A |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed entirely in red on white paper, enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular border with stylised geometric ornaments at the lateral margins, including vertical ladder-pattern strips and rounded-rectangle repeating units. Diamond-shaped vignettes flank the central text panel, above which the issuer legend appears in bold capitals. The denomination is stated in large bold numerals and capital letters, underlined by a double rule. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted white paper reverse, without any design, text, or security features, consistent with the utilitarian wartime production methods employed by Spanish municipal emergency issues of the 1936–1939 period. |
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Pétrola is a small municipality in Albacete province, Castilla-La Mancha, and its wartime scrip belongs to the enormous body of Spanish Civil War emergency local currency — the so-called "billetes locales" — issued from 1936 onward when the Republic's central government could not supply sufficient small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce functioning. Thousands of municipalities, cooperatives, and anarchist collectives printed their own. Most were crude. Most circulated only within a single village.
The Gari Morenilla catalogue remains the primary reference for these issues, though attribution and survival data for minor municipal pieces like this one is often incomplete. Pétrola's issue is among the more obscure entries in the series.