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50 Céntimos Torres de Albanchez
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torres de Albanchez |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper stock printed entirely in black letterpress. The issuer legend appears at the top in bold sans-serif type, underlined by a horizontal rule, followed by a two-line explanatory text in the centre. The denomination statement 'Vale por 50 Cts.' is set in large bold type across the lower half of the note, dominating the composition. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank cream paper stock bearing a single oval municipal control stamp applied in red ink, offset slightly to the left of centre. The stamp carries the circular legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE TORRES DE ALBANCHEZ (JAÉN)' and contains a heraldic coat of arms at its centre. |
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Torres de Albanchez is a small municipality in the sierra of Jaén, Andalusia, with a population historically in the hundreds. That a village this size issued its own paper fractional currency tells you everything about the severity of the coin shortage that gripped Republican Spain from 1936 onward. Central government supply of small denomination coinage collapsed almost immediately after the war started, and municipalities across the country — many with no banking infrastructure whatsoever — were left to improvise their own emergency media of exchange.
The Garibaldi-Monterroso catalog reference places this in a documented but thinly represented series. Local consejo issues from villages of this scale rarely survived in quantity; most circulated hard and were discarded once the crisis passed.