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50 Céntimos Criptana
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Campo de Criptana |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in black and light brown on buff paper, framed by a wide single-line border. The heading 'El Consejo Municipal de Criptana' appears in large bold type across the top, followed by the bearer clause 'pagará al portador' in smaller italic script. The place and date line 'Campo de Criptana 1.º de Septiembre de 1937' is centered in the lower half, with printed designations 'El Presidente' and 'El Depositario' above two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 céntimos Obligatoria su circulación dentro de la localidad NOTA: Este billete no será válido presentándolo doblado. Caduca el 28 de Febrero de 1938 (Translation: 50 Centimos Mandatory circulation within the locality Note: This banknote will not be valid when presented folded. Expires on February 28, 1938) |
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Campo de Criptana is a small La Mancha town most associated with the windmills Cervantes almost certainly had in mind when writing Don Quixote. In July 1936 the Republican zone fragmented into hundreds of local monetary authorities, each issuing emergency paper to cover the collapse of metallic coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply gone within weeks of the coup. This 50 céntimos is one product of that chaos: locally printed, locally authorised, and almost certainly locally redeemed or destroyed within months.
Survival rate for Consejo Municipal issues from small Castilian towns is low. Most were printed in tiny runs with no banking infrastructure behind them.