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0.25 Pesetas Cuevas del Campo

Issuer Municipality of Cuevas del Campo
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Reference(s) Gari Mon#581A-A
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Obverse lettering Esta Administración pagará al portador la cantidad de 0`25 CUEVAS DEL CAMPO (Granada)
(Translation: This Administration will pay the bearer the amount of 0.25 Cuevas del Campo (Granada))
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Cuevas del Campo is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to printing its own fractional emergency notes during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These hyper-local emissions — often produced by the town's own administrative staff on whatever paper was available — were legal only within the issuing municipality and were theoretically redeemable once normal currency returned.

The official stamp serving as the primary security device is characteristic of the period: an ink impression from the ayuntamiento's rubber or metal seal, applied by hand. Forgery was barely a concern at this scale — the real problem was refusal, not counterfeiting.