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50 Céntimos Belalcázar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Belalcázar |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher on coarse card stock, with the issuer's name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BELALCAZAR' set in bold capitals along the top edge, separated from the body by a fine horizontal rule. The central text reads 'VALE a favor del portador por' above the large denomination numeral '50 céntimos'. Two manuscript signature areas occupy the lower portion, designated 'El Interventor,' and 'El Depositario,' respectively, with a handwritten ink signature present beneath the left designation. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely blank reverse of unprinted coarse card stock, bearing no text, design, or decorative elements, consistent with the rudimentary production methods typical of Spanish Civil War emergency issues. |
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Belalcázar is a small municipality in Córdoba province, Spain, and like hundreds of similar towns it resorted to locally issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely in 1936. The Consejo Municipal issues from this period were stopgap instruments, often produced on whatever card or printing stock was locally available — which accounts for the heavier substrate here.
Gari Montllor's catalog remains the primary reference for these Spanish municipal issues, and the -B suffix on this listing typically denotes a secondary variety within the type, usually a color or impression difference.