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25 Céntimos Alborea
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alborea |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper printed in black letterpress throughout. A border of dashed squares frames the note on all sides with rounded corners. At upper left, a handwritten serial number in violet ink follows the printed "N.°" designation, separated from the body text by a thin horizontal rule. The issuing authority's name appears in bold Gothic-style type across the centre, with the denomination numeral in large bold font at lower left and the promise-to-pay legend arranged in two lines to its right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE ALBOREA Pagará al portador 25 Céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Alborea Will pay the bearer 25 Centimos) |
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Alborea is a small municipality in Albacete province, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War — almost certainly between 1936 and 1939 when the disruption of the national coinage supply forced local councils across Republican-held territory to improvise. The Consejo Municipal designation places this firmly in that Republican administrative structure.
The Gari Monetario reference is incomplete, which is not unusual for hyper-local Castilian issues. Many of these small-town cartones and papeletas were never formally catalogued, and surviving examples surface almost exclusively through regional Spanish collectors.