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50 Céntimos La Solana
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Solana |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed in black on plain card stock, the face is dominated by a dense dot-and-square geometric underprint pattern forming a rectangular border and corner ornaments. Within the central white reserve, the issuing authority name "Consejo Municipal" and locality "La Solana" are printed in bold letterpress type, with the denomination "50 Cts." in large numerals below. A blue oval official municipal stamp is applied over the right portion of the design, partially overlapping the inscriptions. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal - La Solana - 50 Cts. (Translation: Municipal Council La Solana 50 Centimos) |
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La Solana is a municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castile–La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued small-denomination emergency scrip during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1936 effectively sanctioned municipal and cooperative issues to address the collapse of small-change circulation. The Consejo Municipal issues from this region are among the least systematically documented in Gari's catalogue — the "Mon#–" reference signals the note has not been formally assigned a number, which usually means either no verified specimen was available to the cataloguer or the issue came to light after the relevant edition closed.
Thick card stock was a common substrate choice for these issues; it survived handling better than thin paper and was easier to produce locally without specialist printing equipment.