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50 Céntimos Villamayor de Santiago
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Villamayor de Santiago |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AYUNTAMIENTO DE VILLAMAYOR DE SANTIAGO PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA JULIO 1937 (Translation: City Council of Villamayor de Santiago Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos In banknotes of the Bank of Spain July 1937) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, showing only the plain unprinted paper surface with no text, vignette, or design elements. |
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Villamayor de Santiago is a small municipality in Cuenca province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, its ayuntamiento resorted to printing fractional emergency notes in 1937 as small change effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not replaced by a central authority stretched thin by war. These local emissions were sanctioned under a Republican government decree that permitted municipal councils to issue small-denomination notes, but oversight was minimal and quality varied wildly.
The Garrido Monet census (Mon#1608-B) distinguishes at least one variant for this denomination, suggesting more than one print run or a design modification during the series.