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50 Céntimos Yébenes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Yébenes |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress. The issuer name "Consejo Municipal de Yébenes (Toledo)" is set in bold type at the top, separated from the denomination by a single horizontal rule. The value "50 céntimos" is rendered in large bold typeface in the lower half, with a handwritten serial number struck below in a contrasting ink. |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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Yébenes — now Los Yébenes, a small municipality in Toledo province — was one of hundreds of Spanish towns that issued emergency fractional scrip during the Civil War. The Republican government's decree of 1937 formally authorized local councils to produce low-denomination notes to combat the chronic shortage of small change that had been crippling everyday commerce since 1936. The Consejo Municipal issues were not bank notes in any formal sense; they were authorized IOUs, redeemable in theory once the crisis passed.
The Gari Mon reference places this within a well-documented but unevenly surviving series. Toledo province examples tend to surface less frequently than those from Catalonia or the Levant, where collector networks were better established after the war.