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50 Céntimos Villamayor de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villamayor de Calatrava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain wartime emergency voucher printed in black letterpress on greenish card stock. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top in bold capitals, separated from 'Villamayor de Calatrava' by a ruled underline, with the denomination 'Vale por 50 céntimos' in the centre field. The date 'Mayo, 1937' and a stamped serial number appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, showing the plain greenish card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental element of any kind. |
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Villamayor de Calatrava is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the Republican zone's emergency small-change crisis of 1936–37. With Franco's Nationalist forces disrupting normal monetary supply lines and metal coinage effectively vanishing from circulation, hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many of them tiny — issued their own cartones and vales to keep local commerce moving. The thick card stock was a practical choice: cheaper to produce locally than printed paper, and harder to fold into illegibility after a week in a pocket.
No Pick or Gari catalog number has been firmly assigned to this issue, which itself signals how obscure the series remains to systematic collectors.