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50 pesetas. September 1937. Asturias and León. NOT ISSUED. Without series and with the matrix on the left. (Edifil 2021: NE33, Pick: S579). Very rare and invisible fold only visible with incident light. EBC+++. Due to the impossibility of shipments from the Central Government, an impossibility caused by strict maritime control in the Cantabrian Sea, the Basque Country and Santander, being led by the national side, the council of Asturias experienced setbacks due to lack of ticketing. After this situation, the production of banknotes with dates of September 1937 is prescribed against the state prohibition. The planned issue was made up of three bills of 25, 50 and 100 Pesetas, of which only the 100 Pesetas was put into circulation and only for 14 days. These banknotes were designed by Germán Horacio Robles, together with their lithographic watermarks, in the Natahoyo neighborhood in Gijón. Those with a value of 50 or 100 Pesetas are signed by Belarmino Tomás (Governor of the Council of Asturias and León) and by Rafael Fernández (Minister of Finance), for this reason they are known as "Belarminos". To get an idea of the rarity of the 50 Pesetas bill, we literally capture a reference from the expert Ramón Cobo Huici, in Numismático Digital: "These 50 pesetas bills can be found with and without the matrix cut, there being an approximately equal number of copies in the two conditions, about 96 copies in total. You can also find very few copies in a vertical pair, without separating" The issue was not completed due to the fall of Gijón into national hands. Source: Ramon Cobo Huici. Antonio Amat, Encyclopedia of Spanish banknotes. Inés Montes, The New Spain.