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50 Céntimos Baños
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Baños (Municipality of Baños, Province of Jaén) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Austere letterpress note printed in black on plain tan card stock. A double-rule rectangular border frames the face, with the issuing authority "Ayuntamiento de Baños" set in bold serif capitals in the upper register, divided from the denomination "50 céntimos" in the lower register by a short horizontal rule. The overall design is unadorned, consistent with the utilitarian character of Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Baños 50 céntimos (Translation: City Council of Baños / 50 Centimos) |
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Municipal emergency scrip from the Spanish Civil War period, when hundreds of Republican-held towns across Andalucía issued their own fractional notes after coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely in 1936. The Ayuntamiento de Baños — a small municipality in the Sierra de Jaén — would have authorized this locally, likely rubber-stamped by a war committee rather than any formal banking authority.
The Garicano-Montalvo catalog reference is incomplete, suggesting this piece remains unconfirmed or was documented too late for full classification. Thick card stock was common for these emissions precisely because it was easier to source locally than banknote paper.