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50 Céntimos El Escorial de la Sierra; replica
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal del Escorial de la Sierra |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DEL ESCORIAL DE LA SIERRA 50 CÉNTIMOS UNION POLIGRAFICA, CONSEJO CUPERO, MADRID. (Translation: MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF ESCORIAL DE LA SIERRA 50 CENTS UNION POLIGRAFICA, CONSEJO CUPERO, MADRID.) |
| Reverse description | Green and dark blue letterpress print. Municipal coat of arms of El Escorial centred on a five-pointed star, surrounded by guilloche underprint. Issuer name arcs above and denomination appears below the central device. |
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El Escorial de la Sierra issued local emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War, part of the broader collapse of small-denomination coinage that forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own provisional notes from 1936 onward. This 2003 replica was produced by the Real Casa de la Moneda — the Spanish national mint and security printer — making it an unusually authoritative reproduction, struck on watermarked paper by the same institution responsible for Spain's official currency.
The watermark is the detail worth noting: few commemorative replicas bother with genuine security substrate.