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50 Céntimos Picón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Picón |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note on pale greenish card stock, entirely in black letterpress. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top in bold capitals, separated from the locality name 'PICON' by a ruled horizontal line, with a second ruled line below. The denomination statement 'Vale por 50 céntimos' is printed in the centre, with the date 'Julio, 1937' and a sequential serial number at the lower left and right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing the plain pale greenish card stock surface with no text, vignettes, or markings of any kind. |
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Picón is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castile–La Mancha, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues produced by Spanish town councils during the Civil War. From late 1936 onward, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small change — coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted — forcing municipal councils, unions, and even individual businesses to print their own fracciones de peseta.
The Garrido Morón reference being unassigned suggests this piece remains poorly documented in the specialist literature. Thick card stock was common for these issues; many town councils had no access to proper printing facilities and worked with whatever local materials were at hand.