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500 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1868-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 / QUINIENTAS PESETAS EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR QUINIENTAS PESETAS BURGOS, 21 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1936 EL GOBERNADOR / EL INTERVENTOR / EL CAJERO (Signatures of Ramón Artigas Gracia, Antonio García Victoria and Juan Villarroya Masfarner) (Translation: Five Hundred Pesetas The Bank of Spain Will pay the bearer Five Hundred Pesetas Burgos, November 21, 1936 The Governor / The Auditor / The Cashier (Signatures of Ramón Artigas Gracia, Antonio García Victoria and Juan Villarroya Masfarner)) |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 / QUINIENTAS PESETAS BANCO DE ESPAÑA (Translation: 500 / Five Hundred Pesetas Bank of Spain) |
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Printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig just as the Civil War fractured Spain into competing monetary authorities, this note was issued by the Republican government — the same Banco de España that Nationalist forces would later claim as their own institution. The three signatures belong to officials of the Republican administration, and that political context directly affects how these notes circulated: Nationalist-held territory refused them, effectively collapsing their usable geography within months of issue.
G&D's involvement is worth noting. The Leipzig firm had a long relationship with Spanish currency production, and the quality of the printing held up well against the chaotic distribution conditions of 1936–37.