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50 Céntimos Yeste
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Yeste |
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| Printer | Imp. y Lit. Collado, Albacete |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE YESTE Vale local de cambio 50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council of Yeste Local exchange voucher 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Green letterpress printing on cream paper, the entire face enclosed within a continuous floral border of oval cartouches containing stylised four-leaf motifs linked by scrolling vine tendrils. The denomination '50 CTS.' in large bold type is centred beneath the two-line legend 'VALE LOCAL DE CAMBIO', with 'YESTE' set in large capitals below; the printer's imprint 'IMP. Y LIT. COLLADO-ALBACETE' appears at the foot. A rectangular pink municipal validation stamp is applied diagonally across the centre. |
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Yeste is a small mountain town in the province of Albacete, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish municipalities, it issued fractional paper currency during the Civil War to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Republican government's emergency decree of 1936 authorized local bodies to fill that gap, which is why notes like this one exist at all — practical necessity, not civic ambition.
Imp. y Lit. Collado was a well-documented provincial printer based in Albacete that produced municipal emergency notes for numerous nearby towns. The official stamp was the primary — often the only — anti-counterfeiting measure available at this scale.