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50 Céntimos Vera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Vera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress text on a light blue underprint with geometric border framing the entire face. The central inscription states the issuing authority, date of issue, and denomination in a structured typographic layout without vignette imagery. |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress denomination numeral centred on the note, surrounded by a geometric guilloche border; the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is printed at centre, flanked by the border ornaments. |
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Vera is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council (consejo municipal) was compelled to print its own fractional currency after the Republican government's centralized coin supply collapsed. These hyper-local emissions were authorized under a 1936 decree permitting municipalities to issue emergency change, but enforcement was loose and designs were largely improvised — often produced by whatever printer, rubber stamp, or typewriter was available locally.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly in the documented Andalusian municipal series, but surviving examples from Vera are genuinely uncommon. Most of these notes were redeemed or simply discarded when the war ended and the Franco regime nullified Republican-era currency entirely.