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50 Céntimos Puertollano
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Puertollano |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress printing on cream paper with a single-line rectangular border. The central vignette is a horizontal lozenge-shaped frame enclosing two flanking human figures, with the face value numerals at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress design on cream paper within a single-line rectangular border. A horizontal octagonal vignette contains a central circular guilloche medallion bearing the denomination numerals, flanked on each side by concentric circular lathe-work ornaments with arrow-tipped horizontal bars, and surmounted at top centre by a mural crown device. |
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Puertollano, a mining town in Ciudad Real province, issued fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War when the hoarding of coins — and the near-total collapse of small-change supply — forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own. The Consejo Municipal issues were a practical stopgap, not a monetary experiment. Most circulated hard within the town and were redeemed or destroyed when central Republican supply chains briefly stabilized.
The Gari Mon 1197-B designation suggests a variant within the Puertollano municipal series — likely a paper or typography difference from a companion issue rather than a separate authorization.