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50 Céntimos Campillo de Arenas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Campillo de Arenas |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#419-C |
| Obverse description | Plain off-white card stock printed entirely in blue ink by letterpress. The text block at centre reads 'Consejo Municipal' in large bold lettering on the upper line, followed by 'Campillo de Arenas (Jaén)' on a second line separated by a ruled border, and 'Vale 0,50 cts.' in large bold numerals below. Decorative wave-and-rule guilloche-style bands border the inscription field at top and bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white card stock, largely unprinted, bearing a faint circular official rubber stamp impression in violet ink applied at centre, the legend of which is largely illegible due to light inking. |
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Campillo de Arenas is a small municipality in the Jaén province of Andalusia, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, it resorted to locally printed fractional notes during the Civil War when the central government's coinage shortage became acute after 1936. These municipal emergency emissions — collectively cataloged by Gari Montaner — were produced under whatever materials were at hand, which accounts for the card stock construction here rather than conventional banknote paper.
The Gari Mon#419-C designation places this within a documented series for the issuer, but survival rates for Campillo de Arenas material are low. The town's wartime administrative records did not survive intact.