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50 Céntimos Infantes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Infantes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock note printed in dark blue letterpress, with the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL separated from INFANTES by a horizontal rule, the latter underlined by a second rule. The denomination Vale por 50 céntimos is set in the centre, with the date Junio, 1937 and a hand-stamped sequential serial number at the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of uniform card stock, bearing two manuscript ink signatures applied by hand, with no other text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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Infantes — now known as Villanueva de los Infantes, in Ciudad Real province — issued its own emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced a chronic shortage of small metallic coin. Municipal councils across Castilla-La Mancha responded by printing their own local scrip, and this 50 céntimos piece from the Consejo Municipal is catalogued in Gari's reference on Spanish Civil War emergency issues as number 781-B, suggesting at minimum one variant exists within the same series.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice: thinner paper degraded quickly in daily market use, and many councils found their early issues illegible within weeks.