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50 Céntimos Santa Eufemia
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santa Eufemia |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1322-B |
| Obverse description | Plain light green card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" appears at the top, separated from "SANTA EUFEMIA" by a horizontal rule above and below, with the town name underlined by a second rule. Below, the denomination text "Vale por 50 céntimos" is set in a serif typeface, followed by a stamped serial number in bold numerals, with the date "Mayo, 1937" in the lower left corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL SANTA EUFEMIA Vale por 50 céntimos Mayo, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Santa Eufemia Voucher for 50 Centimos Mayo, 1937) |
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Santa Eufemia is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after coins vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937. The Republican zone's chronic small-change shortage drove municipal councils — bodies with no banking infrastructure and no formal printing arrangements — to produce what they could locally, often on card stock cut to size rather than purpose-manufactured banknote paper.
The Gari Mon cataloguing places this within a well-documented but still incompletely surveyed series of Andalusian municipal issues. Survival rates for these cards are low; many were redeemed and pulped, or simply discarded once the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.