Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Céntimos Molinicos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Molinicos |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on cream paper, framed by a decorative border of scrollwork and small rosette ornaments at each corner. The denomination numeral '50' appears in a ruled box at upper left, with 'Cts.' in a matching box at upper right, and the issuing authority 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MOLINICOS' in bold uppercase lettering across the centre. Below, a promise-to-pay clause and the spelled-out value 'CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS' are followed by two handwritten manuscript signatures in blue ink above the printed designations 'El Alcalde' and 'El Interventor'. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 50 Cts. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MOLINICOS Pagará al portador en Billetes del Banco de España CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS El Alcalde, El Interventor, (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Molinicos Will pay the bearer in Banknotes of the Bank of Spain Fifty Centimos The Mayor, The Controller) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Molinicos is a small municipality in the sierra of Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's centimo coins disappeared from circulation almost immediately in 1936. The Consejo Municipal — the locally-controlled town council under Republican administration — had no formal banking infrastructure, so these notes were produced with whatever printing resources were locally available.
The Gari Molinicos reference is unassigned, which typically means the cataloger recorded the issuer but lacked a confirmed specimen at time of compilation. Surviving examples from villages of this size are genuinely uncommon.