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50 Céntimos Almagro
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almagro |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue ink on plain paper, the obverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche underprint of intertwining rope-like and foliate scrollwork radiating from a central oval cartouche bearing the large denomination numeral '50' and 'CTS.' in bold letterpress. The issuer's name 'Consejo Municipal de Almagro' and date '15 de Junio de 1937' appear in the upper portion, flanked by fields for series letter 'B' and serial number. Signature lines for 'El Alcalde,' 'El Interventor,' and 'El Depositario' are positioned at upper right and lower left and right respectively, with the artist credit 'MEJIA - DIBUJO' printed at lower right within the border. |
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| Reverse lettering | PAPEL MONEDA Por acuerdo del Consejo Municipal, se pone en circulación al solo objeto de facilitar el cambio, siendo obligatoria su admisión dentro de la localidad y garantizándose con los fondos municipales. Almagro 15 de Junio de 1937. (Translation: Paper Money / By agreement of the Municipal Council, it is put into circulation for the sole purpose of facilitating exchange, its acceptance being mandatory within the locality and guaranteed by municipal funds. / Almagro, June 15, 1937.) |
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Almagro is a small town in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These vales and billetes locales filled a genuine transactional need at the village level, and their issuing authority rarely extended beyond the municipal boundary.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented corpus of Republican local issues, but municipality-level notes from this campaign are notoriously poorly documented on print runs. The designer credit to Mejía is one of the few production details that survived.