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50 Céntimos Chillón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Chillón |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 67 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CHILLON Vale por 50 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Chillón Valid for 50 Centimos July, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted salmon-pink card stock, bearing two handwritten signatures in blue ink applied one above the other as the sole marks of authorisation on an otherwise blank surface. |
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Chillón is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castile-La Mancha, and like hundreds of other Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's small-change coinage effectively vanished from circulation after July 1936. Hoarding, melting, and the sheer disruption of normal commerce stripped copper and silver coins from the economy within months, forcing local councils to paper over the gap with whatever they could print or stamp.
The thick card stock construction is characteristic of municipios that lacked access to proper banknote paper — town councils worked with whatever a local printer had on hand.