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50 Céntimos La Puerta de Segura
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Puerta de Segura |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on coarse grey card stock with rounded corners. A large bold numeral '50' occupies the left half of the note, while the right half carries the issuing authority's name arranged in three lines separated by single horizontal rules. The denomination 'céntimos' is set in bold type across the lower right, underscored by a horizontal rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE LA PUERTA DE SEGURA (Jaén) 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council Of La Puerta de Segura (Jaén) 50 Centimos) |
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La Puerta de Segura is a small municipality in the Sierra de Segura highlands of Jaén province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1936 effectively created a vacuum in small-denomination coinage. The Consejo Municipal issues from this region are among the most obscure in the entire Guerra Civil corpus — surviving examples in any condition are rarely catalogued.
The thick card stock was a practical response to the near-total absence of printing infrastructure in rural Andalusia; card held up better than lightweight paper under repeated handling in village commerce.