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0.50 Peseta Argamasilla de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Argamasilla de Calatrava |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on magenta card stock in dark ink, the face is enclosed within a rectangular geometric border composed of repeating diamond and square ornamental devices, with small decorative corner blocks at each angle. The issuer's name appears in bold letterpress text across the upper field, while a dashed oval cartouche in the centre carries the denomination legend, below which a simple pearl-chain ornament separates the value numeral. A handwritten serial number is applied in the upper margin, and a circular official stamp impression is visible to the left. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ARGAMASILLA DE CALATRAVA Bono Municipal 0,50 peseta Núm. (Translation: Municipal Council of Argamasilla de Calatrava Municipal Bond 0.50 Peseta No.) |
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Argamasilla de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, its municipal council issued fractional emergency notes — vales or billetes locales — during the Civil War years of 1936–1939 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation. The hoarding of metallic currency was immediate and widespread once the conflict began, leaving local economies without any practical means of making change.
Catalog coverage for this specific issue remains incomplete — Gari's numbering is unassigned — suggesting documentation was never fully established, likely due to extreme rarity or the survival of only one or two specimens.