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25 Céntimos Alcampel
| Issuer | Alcampel, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on light blue paper with perforated borders on all four sides. The face bears two lines of bold black letterpress text centred on the note: the denomination voucher legend above and the numeral value below, with no additional vignette or decorative elements. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light blue paper with perforated borders, otherwise blank save for a partial circular violet municipal ink stamp applied to the lower-left area, serving as the sole authentication and identification of the issuing municipality. |
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Alcampel is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's metal coinage disappeared from circulation almost immediately in 1936. These municipal notes — collectively called "moneda local" or "billetes de necesidad" — were produced with whatever printing resources existed locally, which for a village of Alcampel's size meant very modest means indeed.
Provenance and survival rates for notes from villages this small are genuinely unpredictable. Production runs were tiny, redemption chaotic, and most were simply discarded once the war moved through the region.