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50 Céntimos Castell de Ferro
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castell de Ferro |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on light blue paper in dark ink by letterpress, the note is framed by a dotted geometric border with ornamental corner devices and a left-side panel bearing the denomination '50 CTS.' within a decorative column of interlaced geometric ornaments and small heraldic vignettes. The upper right carries the issuer's title in large bold type, with a floriated scroll motif flanking the locality name. Below, a two-line guarantee clause is set in blackletter script, followed by the manuscript signature of the Depositario and a small floral tailpiece in the lower right corner. The imprint 'Papelería Lacoste-Almería' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light blue paper with a circular official ink stamp applied at centre, partially legible, containing text around its circumference. The reverse is otherwise unprinted, consistent with the emergency issue character of this wartime local currency. |
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Castell de Ferro is a small coastal settlement in Granada province, and its municipal council issuing emergency fractional currency in 1937 places this squarely within the Republican wartime necessity-money phenomenon — the billetes de necesidad produced by hundreds of Spanish municipalities when the Civil War disrupted coin supply and the central government couldn't fill the gap fast enough. Papelería Lacoste in Almería printed for several smaller Andalusian councils during this period, functioning essentially as a local job printer pressed into monetary service.
The official stamp was the primary fraud deterrent — without it, the note had no legal standing within the issuing municipality's jurisdiction, which rarely extended beyond a few kilometers anyway.