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25 Céntimos Alarcón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alarcón |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress issue on pink-tinted paper, with black text arranged within a geometric rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left, flanked by the issuing authority's name and denomination text. The overall layout is austere and utilitarian, consistent with wartime municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink-tinted paper with no printed design, text, or ornamentation; the reverse is entirely blank, as was typical of hastily produced Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency vouchers. |
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Alarcón is a tiny walled medieval town in Cuenca province — its municipal council had no business issuing money, and yet here it is. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican-held interior suffered an acute shortage of small change as hoarding stripped copper and silver from circulation almost entirely. Hundreds of municipalities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses responded by printing their own emergency fractional notes, a phenomenon documented across the Republican zone from 1936 onward.
The Gari Monserrat catalog remains the primary reference for these Spanish local issues, and the relative scarcity of Alarcón pieces reflects the town's very small population at the time.