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50 Céntimos Agudo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Agudo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress on olive-green thick card stock, entirely unadorned save for the printed text. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL is set at the top in large capitals, separated from the locality name AGUDO (C. Real) below by a ruled underline. The denomination Vale por 50 céntimos and the date Septiembre 1937 appear in the lower portion, with a handwritten serial number prefixed by No. in the center. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL AGUDO (C. Real) Vale por 50 céntimos No. Septiembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council / Agudo (Ciudad Real) / Valid for 50 Céntimos / No. / September 1937.) |
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Agudo is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile–La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — centimos had effectively vanished from circulation as the war economy strained metal supplies and public hoarding accelerated. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities, trade unions, and local committees filled the gap by issuing their own emergency paper or card fractional currency, collectively known as moneda local de necesidad.
The Gari Monetary catalog reference remains unassigned, which typically indicates a poorly documented emission with few surviving examples recorded at the time of cataloging.