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50 Céntimos Aldea del Rey
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Aldea del Rey |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink card stock printed in black letterpress with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer name is set in two lines separated by ruled horizontal bars, with the denomination in a larger typeface below. A serial number prefixed by 'No.' appears in the lower right corner alongside the date of issue. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of salmon-pink card stock, showing only the natural texture of the substrate with no text, imagery, or ornamental elements. |
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Aldea del Rey is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castilla-La Mancha. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency small-change notes in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local emissions, known collectively as "moneda local de necesidad," were authorized loosely by the Republican government but designed and printed at entirely local initiative, which accounts for the enormous variation in quality and materials across the series.
The Garrido Montero catalog places this piece at #98-B, implying at least one variant exists within the type — likely a difference in ink, paper batch, or handwritten serial sequence.