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50 Céntimos Villacarrillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villacarrillo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design printed in black on orange-toned paper, with the issuer name underlined at the top and the municipal coat of arms of Villacarrillo positioned to the left. The denomination and council designation are set in letterpress type across the face of the note. The overall layout is austere, consistent with wartime emergency issue production. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VILLACARRILLO 50 CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council Villacarrillo 50 Centimos) |
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Villacarrillo is a small olive-producing municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination metallic currency — silver and copper coins had been hoarded or melted — forcing hundreds of individual ayuntamientos and consejos municipales to print their own emergency fractional notes. This is one of those issues, locally authorized and almost certainly locally printed, with a distribution radius that probably never extended beyond the town itself.
The Gari Morancho catalogue remains the primary reference for this material, and the B suffix on this reference number typically indicates a variety distinction — paper stock, serial range, or a typographic difference from the base type.