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50 Céntimos Polopos
| Issuer | Delegación de Abastos de Polopos |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with all text in black letterpress. A geometric border of linked rectangular and elongated oval elements frames the entire face. The issuer's name appears in bold capitals across the upper field, separated from the denomination text by a double rule; the value '50 céntimos' is set in large bold type in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | DELEGACIÓN DE ABASTOS DE POLOPOS VALE POR 50 céntimos (Translation: Supply Delegation of Polopos Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
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Polopos is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of other Spanish villages, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Civil War. The Delegación de Abastos — the local supply committee — had no banking infrastructure to fall back on, only administrative authority and a rubber stamp.
The Gari Mon catalogue reference is incomplete, suggesting this piece remains inadequately documented. That gap is itself informative: Polopos issues surface rarely enough that systematic cataloguing has never been possible.