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0.50 Pesetas Fonelas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fonelas |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-grey paper with all text printed in dark blue-black letterpress. The issuer's name, Consejo Municipal de Fonelas, is set in bold serif capitals across the upper field and underlined by a single ruled horizontal line. Below, the bearer promise legend appears in smaller roman type, with the denomination numeral 0'50 printed in large bold figures at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Fonelas pagará al portador 0`50 (Translation: Municipal Council of Fonelas will pay the bearer 0.50) |
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Fonelas is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional paper money during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. These local emergency issues — known collectively as paper moneda local — were authorized under Republican decree but executed with wildly varying degrees of care. A municipal council stamp was often the only security feature anyone could manage.
The Gari Monerris catalogue reference is incomplete, suggesting this piece may be unconfirmed, a variant, or simply underresearched — not unusual for the smaller Granadan municipalities.