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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Layos |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a rectangular border composed of fine dotted guilloche bands. The issuer's name appears in bold letterpress at the top, with the large numeral '10' at the left and the denomination abbreviation 'CTS.' below it. A handwritten serial number prefixed 'N°' occupies the centre field, and a violet oval official municipality stamp is applied over the lower portion. The printer's imprint 'IMP. PROVINCIAL. — OCAÑA' appears in small type along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Layos 10 CTS. N° Vale para transacciones locales IMP. PROVINCIAL. — OCAÑA |
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Layos is a village in the Toledo province with a population that, even during the 1930s, numbered only in the hundreds. That a Consejo Municipal of this size issued its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War is less surprising than it sounds — the hoarding of coin after July 1936 was so severe that hundreds of Spanish municipalities, many far smaller than anyone would expect, were forced to print their own scrip simply to make change. The Imprenta Provincial de Ocaña, serving the comarca, handled these local commissions without fanfare.