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50 Céntimos Puertollano
| Issuer | Puertollano, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on plain paper with a single-line rectangular border. The reverse carries the series designation, handwritten or printed serial number, date of issue, and signature lines in capital letterpress type. |
| Reverse lettering | CINCUENTA CTS. 1º Septiembre 1937 (Translation: Fifty Centimos, 1st September 1937) |
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Puertollano, a mining town in Ciudad Real province, issued its own fractional currency during the Civil War years when Republican Spain fractured into hundreds of local monetary systems. The near-total disappearance of metallic coinage after 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply removed from circulation by wartime disruption — forced municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives across the Republican zone to fill the gap with paper.
Catalogued under Gari Monerris, the standard reference for Spanish Civil War local issues, this Puertollano emission is among thousands of such municipal necessities produced between 1936 and 1939. The coal-mining economy of the area meant the town had both the organizational infrastructure and the practical urgency to produce its own scrip.