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50 Céntimos Montiel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Montiel |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MONTIEL (C. Real) Vale por 50 céntimos Septiembre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Montiel (Ciudad Real) Valid for 50 Centimos September 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain reverse in the same pink-toned card stock as the obverse, bearing no text, vignette, or decorative element. |
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Montiel is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure to speak of — most of these local issues were produced on whatever card stock or office paper was available, which is exactly what the composition here reflects.
The Gari catalogue treats this as a distinct type from the 956-A variant, almost certainly a paper or printing substrate difference rather than a design change. Survival rates for Montiel issues are low simply because the town's wartime population was small and few notes were produced to begin with.