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50 Céntimos Santisteban del Puerto
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santisteban del Puerto |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain cream paper, enclosed within a decorative geometric border formed by a chain of lozenge and dash ornaments at the perimeter. The upper portion carries series and serial number fields left and right respectively, followed by the issuing authority name in graduated type sizes, the fractional denomination legend, and the large underlined numeral and word value '50 CENTIMOS'. The lower register bears the printed signatures of the Depositario and the Alcalde with their names, and the place and date of issue centred beneath. |
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| Signature(s) | Pedro Olivas (El Depositario) and Casimiro Ruiz (El Alcalde) |
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Santisteban del Puerto is a small municipality in Jaén province, and this note is a product of the Republic's wartime emergency — local councils across loyalist Spain were forced to print their own small-denomination scrip in 1936 and 1937 when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted. The Consejo Municipal's solution here was entirely self-contained: printed, stamped, and signed locally, with authority resting on nothing more than the alcalde's signature and an official rubber stamp.
Pedro Olivas signed as depositary, Casimiro Ruiz as mayor. Both names are otherwise unrecorded in national numismatic literature, which is typical of these hyperlocal emissions — the men who authorized them rarely appear anywhere else.