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50 Céntimos Bedmar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bedmar |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency issue on tan card stock, with the issuer name in large italic script lettering at centre, the town name 'BEDMAR' in spaced capitals beneath, and the denomination 'Vale 50 cts.' in bold letterpress below. A dashed-rule rectangular border frames the entire face, with a sawtooth or serrated pattern running along all four inner margins. |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain and unprinted, showing the natural tan surface of the thick card stock with no text, vignette, or border of any kind. |
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Bedmar is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation after 1936. These municipal notes — often printed on whatever card or heavy paper was available locally — filled the gap left by the Republican government's inability to supply small change across fragmented territory.
Provincial and village-level issues from this period vary enormously in printing quality and surviving quantities, with many destroyed or lost during the post-war Francoist consolidation. Bedmar's issues remain among the more obscure Jaén examples.