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50 Céntimos Escañuela
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Escañuela |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Pagará 50 céntimos Consejo Municipal Escañuela (Jaén) (Translation: Will pay 50 centimos / Municipal Council / Escañuela (Jaen)) |
| Reverse description | Essentially plain reverse on coarse, heavily aged paper stock, bearing no printed design or text. A handwritten notation in blue ink appears at upper right, likely a collector or inventory reference added after issue; faint traces of pink ink and fold marks are visible across the surface. |
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Escañuela is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, its local council issued small-denomination paper during the Civil War to address the acute shortage of metallic coin that followed the Republic's collapse in currency confidence after July 1936. These municipal emergency emissions — known collectively as "billetes locales" or "vales" — were produced under no central authority, often printed locally with whatever equipment was available, and carried no guarantee beyond the issuing council's word.
The 50 céntimos denomination placed this note squarely in the everyday transaction range where the coin shortage bit hardest.