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50 Céntimos San Clemente
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de San Clemente |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress on light pink card stock, with a single rectangular border frame enclosing the entire design. The upper portion carries the municipal name in bold capitals divided by a horizontal rule, while the lower right panel bears the promise-to-pay legend and large denomination numeral. A left panel separated by a vertical rule contains a small geometric triangular ornament above a hand-stamped serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light pink card stock, otherwise blank, with a circular violet ink municipal seal applied off-centre. The seal bears the legend AYUNTAMIENTO DE SAN CLEMENTE around the outer ring with REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA along the lower arc, enclosing a central coat-of-arms vignette. |
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San Clemente is a small Castilian town in Cuenca province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. These local emissions — often printed on whatever card or paper stock was at hand — were technically provisional and legally marginal, but functionally essential for daily transactions in markets and shops.
The Gari Mon catalogue documents well over a thousand such municipal issues; this one's B suffix indicates a distinct type variant within the San Clemente 50 céntimos series, meaning at least two recognizably different emissions exist.