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50 Céntimos Carrión de Calatrava

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Carrión de Calatrava
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout, with no vignette or decorative border. The issuer name appears in two lines at top, separated from the denomination text by a double horizontal rule; the serial number is set in a larger typeface below the value statement. Issue date appears in italic script at the foot of the note, with a partial blue ink stamp visible at upper right.
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Reverse description Plain cream card stock with no printed design. A circular violet ink validation stamp, partially legible, is applied off-centre to the left, enclosing a central device and bearing text reading Carrión de Calatrava around the circumference.
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Carrión de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of tiny local emergency issues that proliferated across Republican-held Spain after the military rising of July 1936 disrupted coin supply nationwide. The Consejo Municipal — effectively the local governing body under wartime conditions — issued fractional notes like this one to fill the gap left by hoarded or disappearing metal coinage, a problem that hit rural communities especially hard.

The Gari Mon catalogue remains the primary reference for these Spanish Civil War municipal issues, and the -B suffix here indicates a recognized variant within the Carrión de Calatrava sequence.

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