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50 Céntimos Salinas
| Issuer | Comisión de Abastecimientos de Salinas |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black and red on white paper with a green guilloche border running the full perimeter, incorporating scalloped cartouches at left and right. The numeral '50' appears in large red digits at the left, set within a green lace-bordered panel, while the central field carries the issuing authority's name and payment obligation in black typography. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, one for the President of the Municipal Council and one for the Vocal of the Supply Commission, each preceded by a printed title line. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 La Comisión de Abastecimientos DE SALINAS Pagará al portador CINCUENTA CENTIMOS en moneda del Banco de España Salinas, Septiembre 1937. El Presidente del Consejo Municipal El Vocal de la Comisión de Abastecimientos (Translation: The Supply Commission of Salinas Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos in currency of the Bank of Spain Salinas, September 1937. The President of the Municipal Council. The Vocal of the Supply Commission.) |
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Salinas is a small municipality in the province of Asturias, and this note belongs to the chaotic local emergency currency phenomenon of the Spanish Civil War — specifically the period when the Republican-controlled northern zone was effectively cut off from the central government in Madrid and left to improvise its own monetary solutions at the municipal level. The Comisión de Abastecimientos — a supply committee rather than a bank or savings institution — issued this purely out of practical necessity, small change having evaporated almost immediately once the war began in July 1936.
Gari's cataloguing of these Asturian municipal pieces is the primary reference; survival rates are poorly documented but presumed low given the paper quality and the fate of the northern zone after its fall to Nationalist forces in October 1937.