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10 Céntimos Almuradiel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almuradiel |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on plain paper within a decorative geometric border of interlocking scroll and key motifs. A halftone portrait vignette of a male figure occupies the upper-left corner, with the issuing authority's name and bearer clause in bold and italic typefaces to its right. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, attributed to the Secretario, El Alcalde, and El Tesorero, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Almuradiel 10 Cts. (Translation: Municipal Council of Almuradiel 10 Centimos) |
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Almuradiel is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional notes when the Republic's small coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply swallowed by wartime disruption. These municipal issues, collectively called "billetes locales" or "moneda municipal," were a spontaneous nationwide phenomenon in 1937, authorized loosely by decree but largely managed by whichever local authority remained functional.
Tipografía Minerva operated out of nearby Manzanares, a regional printing shop pressed into producing currency for multiple surrounding municipalities. The Gari Montaner catalog entry 149-A suggests this is the primary type variant — at least one subtype exists.