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50 Céntimos Castellar de Santiago
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castellar de Santiago |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black on cream card stock, framed by a border of repeating geometric and foliate ornamental units at top and bottom. The issuer's name 'Consejo Municipal de Castellar de Santiago' is set in bold letterpress type across the upper portion, with the large denomination numeral '50' and the legend 'CENTIMOS' centered in the middle field, flanked by rectangular dotted underprint blocks at left and right. The date 'Octubre-1937' appears in the lower portion within a ruled panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Castellar de Santiago 50 CENTIMOS Octubre - 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Castellar de Santiago 50 Centimos October - 1937) |
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Castellar de Santiago is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of similarly obscure Castilian towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Civil War after metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Republican government's decree authorizing local councils to produce suplentes gave legal cover to what was already happening informally across the country.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented Castilla-La Mancha local issues, though surviving examples from villages of this size are genuinely difficult to locate — production runs were small, accounting was informal, and most were redeemed or discarded once the crisis passed.