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50 Céntimos Viator

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Viator
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Value 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP)
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Obverse lettering El Consejo Municipal de Viator Pagará al portador en billetes del Banco de España, la cantidad de Cincuenta céntimos
El Depositario,
Cristóbal Moral
Reverse description The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface with no typographic or decorative elements, consistent with the austere production standards typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues.
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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.

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