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50 Céntimos Liétor
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Liétor |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LIETOR Pagará al Portador 50 cts. Emisión, 1937 El Alcalde, El Interventor, El Depositario, (Translation: Municipal Council of Liétor / Will pay the bearer / 50 centimos / Issue, 1937 / The Mayor, / The Comptroller, / The Treasurer) |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress printing on orange-buff paper, with a large central motif formed by the numeral 50 rendered in dotted and square-matrix typography, set within a lobed cloud-shaped underprint that fills most of the note's surface. A rectangular cartouche bearing the inscription CÉNTIMOS in bold capitals is superimposed horizontally across the centre of the numeral. The printer's imprint IMP. MARTIN - CIEZA appears in small capitals at the lower left margin. |
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Liétor is a small hill town in Albacete province with a population that barely exceeded 3,000 in the 1930s. During the Civil War, hundreds of Republican municipalities across Spain — many of them tiny — issued their own fractional emergency notes when coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation, hoarded or melted down. The Consejo Municipal stepped into that vacuum.
Imp. Martín in Cieza handled printing for several of these local Albacete-region issues, which gives the series a degree of consistency unusual among wartime municipal scrip. Liétor's notes are among the scarcer examples from the province — low original print runs and poor survival rates being the predictable outcome when a town this size issues paper.