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50 Céntimos Huertezuelas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Huertezuelas |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in black ink on cream card stock. A large decorative frame composed of dot-matrix and square geometric patterns forms an hourglass or X-shaped central void, within which the issuing authority name and denomination are printed in bold black type. The inscription reads 'Consejo Municipal' above 'HUERTEZUELAS' and the large numeral '50 Cts.' below, all centred within the frame. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted reverse of cream-coloured card stock, bearing no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Huertezuelas is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castile-La Mancha, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the acute coin shortage that gripped Republican-held Spain from 1936 onward. With silver and copper hoarded or melted, hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many of them tiny — were authorized under emergency decree to issue their own fractional paper currency, the so-called "cartones" or local emergency notes. Huertezuelas, with a population that would never have exceeded a few hundred at the time, was among the most obscure issuers in the entire series.
The thick card stock construction is characteristic of municipal issues that lacked access to proper banknote paper and relied on whatever printing materials were locally available.