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50 Céntimos Castillo de Locubín
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castillo de Locubín |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned card stock of ochre-tan tone with all text applied by letterpress in black ink. The issuer name appears in two lines at the top — "Consejo Municipal" in bold uppercase and "Castillo de Locubin" in a smaller serif typeface — separated from the denomination area by a full-width horizontal rule. Below, the word "VALE" is centered in bold capitals, with the numeral "50" and abbreviation "cts." rendered in large bold type occupying the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse, showing the natural coarse texture of the thick card stock in a uniform ochre-tan tone with no inscriptions, vignettes, or security devices of any kind. |
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Castillo de Locubín is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional notes when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The hoarding and melting of silver and copper coins created an acute shortage of small change that the central government was slow to address, forcing local bodies — councils, unions, cooperatives — to print their own.
Municipal issues from villages of this size were printed in tiny quantities, often on whatever card stock was at hand, and circulated within strict geographic limits. Most were redeemed or destroyed locally; few survived in any number.