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50 Céntimos Carrizosa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Carrizosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on aged cream card stock, enclosed within a single rectangular border. The issuing authority 'Consejo Municipal de CARRIZOSA' is set in the upper left, with a handwritten serial number to the right. The bearer clause and denomination 'CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS' are printed in the centre, followed by the issue date and a signature line for the President; the value notation 'SON 50 CTS.' appears at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de CARRIZOSA Nº [serial] Páguese al portador la cantidad de - CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS - Carrizosa 15 de Junio de 1937. EL PRESIDENTE SON 50 CTS. (Translation: Municipal Council of Carrizosa No. [serial] Pay the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos Carrizosa June 15, 1937. The President They are 50 Centimos) |
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Carrizosa is a small municipality in the Campo de Montiel comarca of Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council resorted to locally produced small-denomination emergency notes when Republican-zone coinage essentially vanished from circulation. The Generalísimo's Nationalist forces had disrupted normal monetary supply chains, and the Republican government's centimos simply weren't reaching rural Castilla-La Mancha in usable quantities.
The Gari Mon 458-B designation suggests at least two known varieties for this denomination, distinguishing what are likely differences in ink, paper stock, or hand-stamped authorization marks rather than substantive design changes. Production at this scale was improvised — town hall resources, nothing more.