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50 Céntimos Granátula
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Granátula |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain uncoloured card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with no vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GRANÁTULA is set in bold capitals across the upper half, flanked by horizontal rules and underlined; the series designation Serie B appears in the upper right corner. The denomination Vale por 50 céntts. is rendered in large bold type at centre, with the place and date Granátula 1.º Agosto 1937 in italic script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted card stock in plain beige-tan tone, bearing only a handwritten violet ink signature at centre-left and a pencilled notation in the upper right corner, consistent with a typical wartime Spanish Civil War emergency issue where the reverse was left blank and validated by hand. |
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Granátula de Calatrava is a small agricultural municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, its local council issued emergency small-change scrip in 1937 when metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from rural areas that the banking system had never adequately served. These municipal emissions were sanctioned under Republican decree but executed entirely at the local level, which accounts for the enormous variation in paper quality, printing method, and denominations across the series.
Gari Mon #727-B indicates a second catalogued type for this denomination, suggesting at least one variant exists — likely a difference in ink color, paper batch, or handstamp.