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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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| Reverse description | Printed in ochre-gold on cream stock, the design centers on a large guilloche circle enclosing the bold numeral '50' above the abbreviated denomination. Symmetrical lathe-work panels flank the central medallion on either side, interspersed with acanthus scroll ornaments. The serial number and series letter appear in blue letterpress at the top and bottom margins respectively. |
| 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.