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50 Céntimos Martos
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Martos |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#889-D |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on cream card stock, with a plain single-rule rectangular border framing the entire face. The issuer name and promise-to-pay legend are set in bold serif type across three lines, with the denomination numeral and word rendered in a larger display typeface at the foot. The note edges are perforated on all four sides, consistent with emergency wartime production. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Ayuntamiento de Martos, pagará al portador 50 céntimos (Translation: The City Council of Martos, will pay the bearer 50 Centimos) |
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Martos is a hilltop town in Jaén province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican authorities failed to supply adequate small change. These ayuntamiento issues were typically authorized by local committees with no formal banking infrastructure behind them, printed on whatever stock was available — hence the thick card construction here — and accepted only within the issuing town's limits.
The Gari Montaner catalogue remains the primary reference for these Spanish local issues, and the 889-D suffix indicates a distinct variety within the Martos series, likely differentiated by color, serial format, or overprint.