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50 Céntimos Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note printed entirely in dark blue letterpress ink on unadorned stock, with no vignette or decorative underprint. The issuing authority appears in bold text at the top, followed by the municipality name and the designation "C. Libre" (Ciudad Libre) in parentheses, with a circular official stamp visible at right. The denomination legend "VALE 50 CTS." is set in large display type across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos (C. Libre) VALE 50 CTS. (Translation: Municipal Council Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos Free City It`s worth 50 Centimos) |
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Santa Cruz de los Cáñamos is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. This 50 céntimos note was almost certainly issued during the Spanish Civil War period, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage drove hundreds of municipal councils across Republican-held territory to print their own emergency paper money — a phenomenon so widespread that the collector reference Gari Mon covers thousands of such issues, many from towns this obscure.
The incomplete Gari Mon reference suggests this piece has not been formally catalogued or confirmed in that corpus, which is not unusual for the smallest municipalities.