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25 Céntimos Abla
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Abla |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ABLA 25 céntimos 25 Septiembre de 1.937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Abla 25 Centimos September 25, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Violet letterpress on white paper with a rectangular linear border frame and geometric ornamental designs surrounding the central face value numeral. The composition is entirely typographic, relying on repeated denomination text and simple geometric rules as decorative elements. |
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Abla is a small municipality in the Almería province of Andalusia, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain in 1937, its local council was forced to issue emergency fractional currency after metallic coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent as the war disrupted supply chains. These municipal emergency issues, collectively known as "billetes de necesidad," were sanctioned under a broader Republican framework that permitted local authorities to fill the gap.
Gari Mon#6-A places this among the catalogued Almería provincial issues, but Abla's output was small even by the standards of the series. Survivors are correspondingly scarce.