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50 Céntimos Viator
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Viator |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in teal-green ink on plain paper stock, the obverse is framed by a decorative geometric border of repeated dot-and-floral motifs. The issuer's name appears in bold display lettering across the upper portion, followed by the payment obligation in Gothic script, and the denomination 'Cincuenta céntimos' in large bold type at centre. An oval municipal seal of Viator (Almería) is applied in violet ink at lower left, alongside a handwritten signature of the Depositario. |
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| Signature(s) | Cristóbal Moral (El Depositario) |
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Viator is a small municipality in the Almería province of southeastern Spain, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the Civil War emergency currency phenomenon — the period from 1936 onward when the collapse of small-denomination coinage forced hundreds of Spanish towns to print their own local scrip. The Consejo Municipal designation reflects the Republican administrative structure in place during that period.
Cristóbal Moral signing as El Depositario — the municipal treasurer — is the kind of hyper-local detail that makes these pieces traceable to specific town hall records, if those records survived. Many did not. The absent Gari Mon catalog number suggests this piece either postdates the catalog's coverage or appeared too infrequently at auction to receive a firm listing.