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50 Céntimos Totana
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Totana |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in teal-green ink on plain cream paper within a dotted guilloche rectangular border matching the obverse. The denomination numeral is set in large bold type, with a coat of arms of the Spanish Republic at centre, flanked by the mandatory circulation legend in smaller roman type. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Céntimos Obligatoria su circulación en la localidad (Translation: 50 Centimos Mandatory circulation in the town) |
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Totana is a small agricultural municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional paper to replace the coinage that had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1937 — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. The Generalitat and the central Republican government both attempted to address the coin shortage from above, but local needs moved faster than any central authority could manage.
The Gari Mon reference places this among the better-documented municipal emissions, though survival rates for Murcian town issues are uneven. Many were redeemed and pulped; others simply wore out in daily market use within months of issue.