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50 Céntimos Pedroñeras
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Pedroñeras (Municipality of Las Pedroñeras) |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The large numeral '50' occupies the left half of the note in bold block type, while the right half carries the issuing authority's name arranged in three lines with a short rule separating 'DE' from 'PEDROÑERAS'. The denomination 'céntimos' appears in the lower right in serif italics, underlined by a solid rule. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on thick cream card stock, showing only the natural texture and slight discoloration of the fibrous paper substrate, with no text, imagery, or security elements of any kind. |
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Las Pedroñeras is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla-La Mancha, and this 50 céntimos piece belongs to the wave of locally-issued emergency paper money — *guerra civil* fractional currency — produced by Spanish town councils after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. With silver hoarded and copper insufficient, hundreds of municipalities printed their own notes or cardboard vouchers to keep local commerce functional. Most circulated only within the issuing township and were worthless beyond it.
The Gari Mon catalogue reference places this firmly in the documented Civil War local issues, though surviving examples from small Cuencano municipalities are genuinely uncommon.