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50 Céntimos Castuera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castuera |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on reddish-brown paper stock, the note is enclosed by a dashed rectangular border. The issuing authority "Consejo Municipal de Castuera" appears in bold letterpress along the upper portion, followed by the series designation "Serie B" in the centre. The denomination "VALE POR 50 CÉNTIMOS" is set in large bold type across the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse appears uniface or bears no printed design, consistent with the rudimentary emergency production methods employed by Spanish municipal authorities during the Civil War period. |
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Castuera is a small town in Extremadura, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued its own fractional paper currency when coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. These emergency emissions — known as papel moneda local — were produced under no central authority, often printed on whatever stock was available, and backed by nothing more than municipal goodwill.
The Gari Mon reference places this within a documented but sparsely catalogued series. Many Extremaduran municipal notes were produced in tiny quantities and saw only weeks of use before the front shifted.