Catalog
0.25 Pesetas Camarillas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Camarillas |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Camarillas (Teruel) VALE POR 0,25 PESETAS (Translation: Municipal Council Camarillas (Teruel) Voucher for 0.25 Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Plain light blue-grey paper bearing a circular violet rubber handstamp of the Consejo Municipal de Camarillas, partially impressed, with a manuscript signature in dark ink applied by hand at the centre, serving as the sole authenticating elements on an otherwise uninscribed field. |
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Camarillas is a tiny municipality in the Teruel province of Aragon — population measured in the hundreds even today. Like dozens of similarly small Republican-controlled towns during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency (known as moneda local de necesidad) to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation after 1936. The Nationalist blockade and wartime hoarding had drained copper and silver from Republican territory, forcing municipalities with no banking infrastructure and no formal monetary authority to print their own.
Gari Mon #411A-A suggests limited typological variants were documented for this issuer, which itself signals a very short print run.