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50 Céntimos Totana
| Issuer | Totana, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Totana pagará al portador, en billetes del Banco de España, la cantidad de 50 Ctmos. Emisión 16 Mayo 1937. (Translation: The Municipal Council of Totana will pay the bearer, in banknotes of the Bank of Spain, the amount of 50 Centimos. Issue 16 May 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green ink, the reverse carries a decorative border composed of floral and geometric elements. A local municipal coat of arms occupies the centre, enclosed within floral ornamental designs, with two cherub figures flanking the central vignette. The denomination appears in abbreviated form. |
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Totana is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it printed its own fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Nationalist blockade and wartime hoarding drained small change so completely that local councils had no practical alternative. These municipal emissions were technically illegal under central Republican banking law but were tolerated out of necessity.
The Gari Montllor catalog — the authoritative reference for Spanish Civil War local issues — documents this 50 céntimos as type F, implying multiple distinct variants exist for Totana alone.