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50 Céntimos Cambil
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cambil |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note in black ink on cream card stock, bordered by a rectangular frame of small squares. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears as a vignette to the left, with the denomination and promise-to-pay text arranged in the central field. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed reverse in black ink bearing the issuance date in large type at upper centre, with the municipal coat of arms vignette at upper left. Three signature lines are printed in black — El Presidente, El Depositario, and Secretario Interventor — each accompanied by handwritten ink signatures, and a circular official municipal stamp in violet ink is applied centrally. |
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Cambil is a small municipality in the Sierra Mágica hills of Jaén province, and like dozens of similarly sized Republican-held towns during the Civil War, its municipal council was forced to issue its own emergency fractional currency when the flight of silver coinage and hoarding left the local economy effectively frozen. These hyper-local emissions — often called billetes de necesidad or moneda de papel local — were produced with whatever materials were at hand, which is why thick card stock appears so frequently among Andalusian municipal issues of 1936–37.
Cambil's council had no access to a professional printer. Production was almost certainly handled in-house or by a local stationer, which accounts for the crude manufacture typical of Jaén province municipal notes from this period.