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50 Céntimos Lillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Lillo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on white paper stock, the obverse carries the issuing authority's name across the top in bold letterpress type, with the denomination numeral '0'50' at the upper right. A vertical dotted guilloche border runs along the left margin. The body of the note bears the promise-to-pay legend in graduated lettering, with signature lines for El Presidente and El Consejero de Hacienda below, over which two manuscript signatures appear alongside a faint circular official stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Lillo 0'50 Pagará al portador Cincuenta céntimos de peseta El Presidente El Consejero de Hacienda (Translation: The Municipal Council of Lillo / 0.50 / Will pay the bearer / Fifty céntimos de peseta / The President / The Finance Councillor) |
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Lillo is a small municipality in Toledo province, Castile–La Mancha, and this 50 céntimos note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War local emergency paper — issued by municipal councils when the Republic's small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely after July 1936. Hoarding, requisitioning, and the sheer disruption of supply chains stripped towns of usable change within weeks of the war's outbreak.
The Gari Monetary catalog reference places this within a documented but sparsely studied group. Municipal issues from villages of Lillo's size were typically produced in very small print runs, often on whatever paper stock was locally available, and redemption after the war was neither guaranteed nor widely pursued.