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50 Céntimos Castellote
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castellote |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#496-B |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in teal-green ink on plain cream paper, with an outer border of interlocking geometric chain ornaments enclosing an inner dotted-rule frame. The issuer title appears in bold serif capitals across the top, separated from the lower text by a horizontal rule; the denomination is set in a central rounded-rectangle cartouche formed by a dotted border. A red stamped serial number appears to the left of the cartouche, and the authorising legend with the president's title is set in italic below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Castellote 50 céntimos Acuerdo de la Comisión Gestora de fecha 5 Sbre. de 1937. El Presidente, (Translation: Municipal Council of Castellote 50 Centimos Agreement of the Managing Commission dated September 5, 1937. The President,) |
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Castellote is a small hilltop municipality in the Maestrazgo region of Teruel province — deep in Republican-held Aragon during the first year of the Civil War. The Consejo Municipal issued emergency fractional notes like this one because the nationalist blockade of supply lines had effectively drained metallic coinage from the region. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same in 1936–37, producing what collectors now call "guerra civil local paper" — a category notable more for its documentary than its monetary function.
Castellote fell to Franco's forces in March 1938, after which these notes became worthless almost immediately. The Gari Montaner census remains the primary reference for Aragonese municipal issues of this type.