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50 Céntimos Mancha Real
| Issuer | Mancha Real, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text letterpress-printed in blue ink. The municipality name MANCHA REAL appears in large bold capitals at the top, separated from the central text by a horizontal rule; the face value 50 céntimos is set in a larger typeface mid-field, with the reimbursement clause rendered in a Gothic script below a second horizontal rule. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with no printed design. The reverse bears an oval black cancellation stamp, a purple ink stamp with abbreviated text, a red handstamp, and a handwritten collector notation in pencil, all applied post-issue. |
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Mancha Real is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War years after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed. These hyper-local emissions — produced without any central oversight — were typically typeset or rubber-stamped locally, often on whatever paper was available, which is why condition problems are endemic to the type.
Provenance matters more than usual here: distinguishing genuine circulated examples from later facsimiles requires attention to paper aging and ink absorption, as several Spanish municipal notes of this period were reproduced for collectors in the 1960s and 70s.