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50 Céntimos Ulea
| Issuer | Municipality of Ulea (Province of Murcia) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | MUNICIPIO DE ULEA CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL VALE por 50 céntimos EL INTERVENTOR GARANTIZADO CON BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA (Translation: Municipality of Ulea / Local Circulation / Voucher for 50 Céntimos / The Interventor / Guaranteed with banknotes of the Bank of Spain) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single inked rubber-stamp impression of the municipal coat of arms of Ulea at centre, rendered in blue ink. The heraldic device shows a quartered shield surmounted by a crown with flanking decorative supports and a ribbon banner below. The surrounding field is otherwise blank. |
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Ulea is a small inland municipality in the Segura river valley, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency fractional paper during the Civil War after metallic coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in the Republican zone from 1936 onward. These municipal emissions were never coordinated — each ayuntamiento improvised its own design, authorization, and printing method, which is why survivorship varies so wildly from town to town.
The Gari Mon reference places this within a documented but sparsely catalogued series. Ulea's total wartime population was under a thousand, and notes from municipalities this small rarely saw extended circulation beyond a single commercial district.