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50 Céntimos La Solana
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Solana |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on cream stock, framed by a single-line rectangular border. A central vignette shows a man operating a tractor plowing a field, with the local municipal coat of arms positioned in the upper left corner. The issuing authority's legend and promise-to-pay inscription are arranged around the vignette, with the date and place of issue printed below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTS. SERIE B (Translation: 50 Centimos, Series B) |
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La Solana is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it was forced to print its own fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican-zone coins disappeared from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937 — hoarded, melted, or simply exhausted by the demands of a wartime economy. These municipal emergency issues, collectively catalogued under the broader billetes locales classification, were produced under wildly uneven conditions: some by reasonably equipped printers, others by whatever local press happened to exist.
The Gari Mon reference places this among the better-documented Castilian issues, though survival rates for La Solana material remain low.