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25 Céntimos Abenójar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Abenójar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL underlined at the top, followed by ABENOJAR on the second line. The denomination Vale por 25 céntimos is stated in the centre, with the date Mayo, 1937 and a handwritten serial number at the lower left. No vignette or ornamental elements are present, reflecting the austere wartime emergency issue character of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ABENOJAR Vale por 25 céntimos Mayo, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Abenójar Valid for 25 Centimos May 1937) |
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Abenójar is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain in 1937, its ayuntamiento resorted to issuing local emergency fractional currency after silver and copper coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation in the opening year of the Civil War. The Consejo Municipal designation reflects the wartime reorganization of local government under the Popular Front.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, which typically means the cataloger recorded the type but could not confirm enough surviving examples to establish a firm listing — or encountered it too late for full inclusion. Thick card stock was the material of necessity at this scale; proper banknote paper was not available to village councils.