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50 Céntimos Píñar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Píñar |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on salmon-pink paper in black letterpress, the face of this Civil War emergency note carries the issuing authority's name in large display type across the upper portion, followed by the locality and province. A bearer payment obligation is set out in two lines of bold capitals, with the denomination '0'50 cts.' rendered in a larger font at the lower right. The note is entirely typographic, with no vignette or decorative underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de PIÑAR (Granada) PAGARA AL PORTADOR la cantidad de 0`50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council of Píñar (Granada) will pay the bearer the amount of 0.50 Céntimos) |
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Píñar is a small municipality in Granada province, and this 50 céntimos note is one of thousands of emergency fractional issues produced by Spanish town councils during the Civil War years of 1936–1939. The Republican government's inability to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination coinage forced municipalities down to the village level to print their own scrip — some on proper paper, many on whatever stock was available locally.
The Gari Mon cataloguing of these municipal emissions is the primary reference for the series; without it, attributing minor Andalusian issues like this one would be nearly impossible given how few survive in documented collections.