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50 Céntimos Sorihuela
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sorihuela |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name appears underlined across the top, with the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic positioned to the left of the body text. The denomination is stated twice within the text block, once spelled out in words and once in Arabic numerals. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream-buff card stock bearing signs of circulation wear and surface creasing. A faint pink stamp impression is present at centre, with pencilled collector reference notations visible at the upper right corner. |
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Sorihuela — a hamlet in Salamanca province — was one of hundreds of small Spanish municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local bodies to fill the acute shortage of small change. The Consejo Municipal issues from villages this size were typically produced by whatever printing resources existed locally: a rubber stamp, a typewriter, a hand press. Quality control was not the priority; getting something into circulation was.
The thick stock is characteristic of issues meant to survive heavy local handling without a banking infrastructure behind them to replace worn notes.