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50 Céntimos Castigaleu
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castigaleu |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper note with black letterpress text on an unadorned ground, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The issuing authority appears in two lines at the top, with the municipality name in large bold capitals across the centre, separated from the denomination statement below by a row of dots. The denomination legend in bold type occupies the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink paper reverse bearing a large oval violet ink stamp of the Alcalde del Ayuntamiento de Castigaleu (Huesca), with the municipality name across the centre and a handwritten signature of the mayor crossing the face of the stamp. |
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Castigaleu is a tiny municipality in the Ribagorza comarca of Huesca, Aragon — during the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of such micro-communities issued their own emergency paper fractional currency when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely. The Republican government's 1937 decree attempted to suppress these local emissions, but enforcement in rural Aragon was effectively nonexistent.
A 50 céntimos note from a village this small would have circulated within an extremely tight geographic radius, likely redeemable only at the local municipal authority itself. Survival rates for Castigaleu issues are low simply because so few were printed to begin with.