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0.25 Pesetas Jijona
| Issuer | Conserjería de El Trabajo, Jijona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 49 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on dark red card stock, the obverse bears a serial number at upper centre above a horizontal rule, with the face value '0,25 ptas.' in bold type below the legend 'VALE por'. The issuer's name 'Heliodoro Sirvent', institution 'Conserjería de El Trabajo', and locality 'Jijona' are arranged in three lines at lower centre. Two overlapping oval validation stamps in violet ink are applied across the face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise plain dark red card stock, bearing a single large oval validation stamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp reads 'CONSERJERIA EL TRABAJO' around the upper arc and 'JIJONA' at the lower arc, with 'H. SIRVENT' across the interior. |
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Jijona — now better known internationally for its turrón production than its wartime monetary history — issued these fractional notes during the Spanish Civil War as the Republican zone fragmented into hundreds of local emergency currencies. The near-square format of this piece is not accidental; small-denomination local issues from this period were frequently cut from larger sheets with minimal planning, and the almost identical width and height suggest exactly that.
The issuing authority, the Conserjería de El Trabajo, was a local labor body rather than a municipal treasury — an unusual arrangement even by the improvised standards of 1937 Republican Spain.