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50 Céntimos Almonacid
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almonacid (Toledo) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper note with all text letterpress-printed in red ink. The issuer name "Consejo Municipal / Almonacid (Toledo)" is set in two lines at the top, separated from the denomination by a single horizontal rule underline. The denomination "50 céntimos" is printed in a larger typeface in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain cream-coloured fibrous paper, showing the natural texture of the stock with no design, lettering, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Almonacid de Toledo was among the hundreds of Spanish municipalities that issued their own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War, when Republican-zone centimo coinage all but vanished from circulation by 1936–37. These local council notes — produced under no central printing authority — were typically typeset or rubber-stamped on whatever paper stock was available, with handwritten serial numbers and signatures completing the legal formality.
Surviving examples from small Castilian councils like Almonacid are genuinely rare, not from collector demand at the time, but because original quantities were tiny and most were redeemed or simply discarded once the war ended the issuer's authority to pay anything at all.