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50 Céntimos Montealegre del Castillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Montealegre del Castillo |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown note with a central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure wearing a crown, holding a caduceus in one hand and a bag of money in the other, symbolising the Spanish Republic. The face value '50 CTS' appears alongside the issuing authority inscription arranged around the central vignette. The overall design is executed in a simple letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Brown note with a central vignette of a harvesting machine working in a wheat field, with sun rays radiating outward from the face value numeral. The design is printed in a simple letterpress style consistent with locally produced Spanish Civil War emergency currency. |
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Montealegre del Castillo is a small municipality in Albacete province, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the Spanish Civil War's fractured monetary reality. With Republican Spain suffering acute small-change shortages from 1936 onward, hundreds of local councils — many with no banking infrastructure whatsoever — printed their own emergency scrip. The Consejo Municipal issues from villages of this size were typically produced by local printers, often on whatever paper stock was available, and authorized by the town council alone.
The Gari catalogue remains the primary reference for these Castilla-La Mancha municipal emissions, and the "B" suffix indicates a distinct type within the Montealegre del Castillo group — likely a second printing or variant design.