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50 Céntimos Torreblascopedro
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torreblascopedro |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a rectangular linear border with geometric ornamental designs at each corner and along the sides. The central text block carries the promise-to-pay inscription in bold letterpress typography, with the denomination numeral rendered in a larger point size. The overall layout is text-dominant with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Printed throughout in violet, the reverse carries a central vignette of a male figure in the act of sowing seed across a ploughed field, with a radiant rising sun rendered in dotted relief to the left and a fruiting olive or almond branch to the right. The large denomination numeral '50' occupies the right panel within a ruled frame, while the issuer name runs across the upper register and 'CINCUENTA CENTS.' is set in bold capitals along the lower margin. A series letter and handwritten serial number appear to the lower left. |
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Torreblascopedro is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and this 50 céntimos note is among the most obscure products of Spain's Civil War emergency coinage crisis. When the Republic's fractional coins disappeared from circulation after 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable — hundreds of local councils across Republican-held territory printed their own scrip to keep small transactions moving. Most of these emissions were entirely self-designed and locally produced, with no central oversight.
The Gari Montaner reference places this in a documented but extremely thin corpus for this municipio.