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25 Céntimos Albox
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albox |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text and geometric border frame printed over a pink floral and geometric underprint. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centered, dividing the date of issue. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear above and below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress text and geometric border frame printed over a pink floral and geometric underprint. A central allegorical vignette shows a seated female figure holding a set of scales in one hand and tablets of law in the other, symbolizing justice. The denomination appears in a simple text inscription. |
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Albox is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These consejo municipal notes were a purely local solution to a purely local problem, legally dubious but practically necessary.
The Gari Montserrat reference places this among the documented Almería regional emissions, though survival rates for these village-level issues are low. Many were redeemed at face value and destroyed once the crisis passed, or simply became worthless after Nationalist forces took the region in 1939.