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0.25 Pesetas El Bonillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de El Bonillo |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Entirely typeset in red letterpress on plain paper, the face is bordered by a continuous decorative frame of repeated floral and foliate motifs. The issuer's name appears in bold capitals across the top, with the denomination "Vale 0'25 ptas." in large display type at centre. A three-line bearer clause in italic script occupies the lower half, with series letter and serial number printed at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single oval violet rubber stamp of the Consejo Municipal de El Bonillo applied off-centre to the right, serving as the sole authorisation mark on this side. |
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El Bonillo is a small municipality in the province of Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, its Consejo Municipal issued fractional emergency notes during the Civil War years of 1936–1939. The central government's inability to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination coinage created a vacuum that local councils filled with their own printed or handstamped paper — technically illegal under national banking law but tolerated out of necessity.
The Gari Monereo reference for this piece is unassigned, suggesting it either remains uncatalogued or was documented too late for inclusion in the standard run. That gap alone makes attribution and verification difficult.