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25 Céntimos Albuñol
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Albuñol |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO DE ALBUÑOL Vale por 25 céntimos No es válido sin sello y firma (Translation: City Council of Albuñol Valid for 25 Centimos Not valid without seal and signature) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse bearing handwritten validation in blue ink: a date reading '29 Spt. 1937', the role designations 'El Alcalde' and 'El Depositario', and two cursive signatures executed below each respective title. |
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Albuñol is a small municipality in the Granada province of Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional paper when coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation after 1936. Republican-zone municipalities were effectively left to solve the small-change crisis themselves, with no coordinated central solution — the result was thousands of locally produced pieces of wildly varying quality and authority.
The official stamp was the primary mechanism asserting legitimacy. Without it, the paper had no standing whatsoever.