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50 Céntimos Sevilleja de la Jara
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sevilleja de la Jara |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue-grey ink with an intricate guilloche framework of interlaced geometric and foliate lattice patterns filling the left and right panels, flanking a central oval cartouche. Within the cartouche, the denomination numeral 50 and the word céntimos are printed in plain letterpress type against the unprinted paper ground. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 céntimos |
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Sevilleja de la Jara is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, its local council was forced to issue its own fractional paper money after the Civil War's outbreak in 1936 drained metallic coinage from circulation almost immediately. The Nationalist advance through Extremadura and the disruption of normal banking channels left communities entirely without small change for everyday transactions.
These hyper-local emergency issues were produced under no central oversight — quality, format, and even legality varied wildly from one town to the next.