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50 Céntimos Ciudad Real
| Issuer | Ciudad Real, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#542-B |
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| Reverse description | Light brown note with a central vignette of a walled city gate, identified as the Gate of Toledo, flanked on either side by heraldic winged mythological creatures. The composition is set within a plain border, with denomination and issuer legend arranged around the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Cts. CONSEJO MVNICIPAL DE CIVDAD-REAL (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Ciudad-Real) |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal issues produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, this note exists because the central government was unable to maintain adequate coin supply to the provinces. Small change effectively disappeared from circulation as silver was hoarded and copper coinage proved insufficient — municipalities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses stepped in to fill the gap with locally produced fractional paper.
Ciudad Real remained under Republican control until late March 1939. Notes from this series were rendered worthless almost immediately upon Nationalist occupation, which is why surviving examples in any condition tend to show little sign of heavy use.