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0.25 Pesetas Carcelén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Carcelén |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | EMISIÓN 1937 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE CARCELEN BONO DE ARBITRIO MUNICIPAL 0,25 PTAS. (Translation: Issue 1937 Municipal Council of Carcelén Municipal arbitration bond 0.25 Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Plain letterpress-printed reverse in brown ink, enclosed within a double geometric border composed of repeated foliate ornaments along the outer rule and a rectilinear inner frame with corner bracket motifs. The denomination '0,25' is set in large bold numerals at centre, flanked on each side by a red handstamped serial number. The issuer name appears above and the phrase 'Papel moneda exclusivamente local' is set in italic script at the foot. |
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Carcelén is a small municipality in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional emergency notes when the Republic's coin supply collapsed almost entirely in 1936–37. Hoarding, metal requisitioning, and the breakdown of normal supply chains left small transactions impossible — these consejo notes filled the gap at the hyperlocal level.
The Gari Monerris reference being absent suggests this piece either wasn't catalogued in the main corpus or remains insufficiently documented. Genuinely rare, or genuinely overlooked — the distinction matters for attribution.