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50 Céntimos Quintanar de la Orden
| Issuer | Quintanar de la Orden, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed note on plain paper stock, with the issuing legend 'Crédito Comercial Local' across the top in bold letterpress. The centre carries a large numeral '50' set within an oval dotted guilloche underprint flanked by two smaller elliptical dot-matrix lozenges, with the bearer clause text arranged around the numeral. The place and date of issue appear in italic script along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Crédito Comercial Local pagará al portador 50 céntimos de peseta Quintanar de la Orden, mayo de 1937 (Translation: Local Commercial Credit will pay the bearer 50 Centimos of Peseta Quintanar de la Orden, May of 1937) |
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Quintanar de la Orden is a small municipality in Toledo province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 to offset the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. The Republican government's inability to distribute small change forced local authorities — ayuntamientos, trade unions, cooperatives — to print their own. Most were produced on whatever paper stock was locally available, which is why survival rates vary so dramatically within a single series.
The Gari Montllor catalogue remains the primary reference for these emergency municipals, and the B suffix here indicates a distinct variety within the type — likely a paper or color variant rather than a reissue.