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50 Céntimos Piedrabuena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Piedrabuena |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in black letterpress on yellow card stock, the obverse bears the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / PIEDRABUENA in two lines separated by ruled underlines, followed by the denomination statement and a handwritten serial number at lower right. The date of issue, Julio, 1937, appears at lower left, completing the plain, utilitarian layout typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PIEDRABUENA Vale por 50 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Piedrabuena Valid for 50 Centimos July, 1937) |
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Piedrabuena is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castilla-La Mancha, and this emergency local issue dates to the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of fractional coinage. The central government had lost control of silver coin circulation almost immediately after July 1936, prompting hundreds of municipios to print their own emergency vales. Gari Mon#1112-B places this within that documented wave of Consejo Municipal issues, though Piedrabuena's output was small enough that surviving examples are genuinely uncommon.
The thick card stock was a practical choice — thinner paper disintegrated quickly in daily use, and these notes were expected to function as small change indefinitely.