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50 Céntimos Brazatortas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Brazatortas |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BRAZATORTAS (C. Real) Vale por 50 céntimos Nº [serial number] Emisión Noviembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council / Brazatortas (Ciudad Real) / Valid for 50 Centimos / No. [serial number] / Issue November 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted cream card stock bearing a large circular red ink stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Brazatortas, with two bold handwritten signatures crossing over the central field of the stamp. Pencilled collector notations appear in the upper right corner. The reverse carries no typographic text. |
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Brazatortas is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of similarly obscure Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Consejo Municipal — the locally controlled governing council under Republican administration — authorized these notes to keep everyday commerce functioning when copper and silver coins had entirely vanished from circulation through hoarding and wartime disruption.
The thick card stock construction is characteristic of many Castilian municipal issues from this period, where proper banknote paper was simply unavailable at the local level. Gari Mon catalogues two varieties for Brazatortas; this is the B type.