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50 Céntimos San Carlos del Valle
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de San Carlos del Valle |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL San Carlos del Valle 50 Céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council San Carlos del Valle 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, printed on the same coarse cream card stock as the obverse, with no printed design, lettering, or ornamental elements, consistent with the emergency, locally produced nature of this Civil War-era municipal token currency. |
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San Carlos del Valle is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile–La Mancha. This 50 céntimos note was issued by its Consejo Municipal — the local council acting as emergency issuing authority — almost certainly during the Spanish Civil War period, when the Republican zone faced a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities resorted to locally printed or hand-stamped paper in denominations of 25, 50, and 100 céntimos to keep daily commerce functioning.
The thick card stock construction is characteristic of expedient wartime issues, often produced on whatever suitable material was locally available rather than purpose-made banknote paper.