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50 Céntimos Carrión de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Carrión de Calatrava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 57 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CARRIÓN DE CALATRAVA Vale por 50 céntimos Junio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Carrión de Calatrava Valid for 50 Centimos June, 1937) |
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| Protection description | Circular violet ink official municipal stamp applied to the reverse, serving as an authentication mark. |
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Carrión de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and this 50 céntimos piece belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency — the *billetes de necesidad* — issued when the Republican government's decree of 1936 authorized local councils to print their own small-denomination scrip to address the chronic shortage of fractional coinage. Hundreds of towns did exactly this, most with minimal printing infrastructure and whatever card stock was at hand.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, suggesting the cataloger recorded the type without a confirmed number — not unusual for the smaller Castilla-La Mancha municipalities, where survival rates are low and documentation thinner than for larger urban issues.