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50 Céntimos Beas de Segura
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Beas de Segura |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on pale orange underprint, with a decorative floral border framing the entire perimeter. The central text block carries the issuing authority, note type, and denomination in serif lettering arranged in stacked lines. |
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| Reverse lettering | Este Billete es valedero solamente en el interior de este término municipal, pudiendo ser canjeado en Billetes del Banco de España cuando a su poseedor le interese en la Oficina de Intercambio que para los efectos ha montado este Consejo Municipal. (Translation: This Banknote is only valid within this municipal term, and can be exchanged for Banknotes of the Bank of Spain when the holder is interested in it at the Exchange Office that this Municipal Council has set up for this purpose.) |
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Beas de Segura is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of similar towns it resorted to locally produced fractional paper during the Civil War emergency of 1936–37. The central government's hoarding of coinage — driven by wartime metal demands and public panic — left Republican-held municipalities scrambling to produce their own small-change substitutes. These consejos municipales had no printing infrastructure to speak of, and most of their emergency notes were produced on whatever stock was available, often with rubber stamps or rudimentary typeset.
Survival rates for Beas de Segura issues are low simply because the notes were always local in scope and short-lived in validity.