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50 Céntimos Alcalá del Júcar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alcalá del Júcar |
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| Size | 40 × 30 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout, with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. A dotted serial number line appears at the top beneath the legend "Núm.", with the denomination "50 Céntimos" set in bold type at the foot of the note. The entire design is purely typographic, reflecting the rudimentary production conditions of wartime municipal emergency currency. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting the plain cream-coloured card stock without any text, vignette, or ornamental device. |
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Alcalá del Júcar is a small hill town in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it resorted to locally produced small-change notes during the Civil War when Republican authorities hoarded coinage and the national supply of fractional currency collapsed entirely. These emergency emissions — known as "moneda local" or "papel moneda municipal" — were often printed on whatever card stock or heavy paper the town hall could lay hands on, which is exactly what the thick substrate here suggests.
The Gari Morancho catalog (the standard reference for Spanish Civil War local issues) classifies this under #70-B, indicating at least two variants exist for this denomination from this issuer.