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50 Céntimos Porzuna
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Porzuna |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on rose-tinted card stock, the obverse bears the issuer's name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' in bold capitals above a horizontal rule, with 'PORZUNA' centred beneath a second rule. The denomination 'Vale por 50 céntimos' is set in the middle field, with the date 'Julio, 1937' at lower left and a stamped serial number at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PORZUNA Vale por 50 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Porzuna Valid for 50 Centimos July, 1937) |
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Porzuna is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castilla-La Mancha. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council — the Consejo Municipal — issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed almost immediately after July 1936. These locally produced pieces, collectively catalogued under the broad "Guerra Civil" emergency issues, were a practical stop-gap rather than any assertion of monetary independence.
The Gari Mon reference places this squarely among the documented La Mancha municipal issues. Thick card stock was common for these short-run pieces, which were often produced on whatever printing equipment the town hall had access to.