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50 Céntimos Villamayor de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Villamayor de Calatrava |
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| Shape | Rectangular (Rounded corners) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 céntimos Consejo Municipal DE Villamayor de Calatrava |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same yellow-ochre card stock as the obverse with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements, consistent with the austerity of Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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Villamayor de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and this 50 céntimos note is a product of the Spanish Civil War's radical localization of currency. When the Republic's central supply chain broke down after July 1936, hundreds of municipalities across the country issued their own emergency small-change notes — cartones, vales, or papel moneda local — to plug the vacuum left by hoarded coins. Villamayor, with a population well under a thousand, was among the most modest of these issuers.
The Gari Montllor catalog reference remains unassigned, suggesting documentation on this specific piece is incomplete or the note surfaced after the main census was compiled.