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25 Céntimos Alcampel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alcampel |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text in black letterpress. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top in bold capitals, with 'Alcampel (Huesca)' in a larger mixed-case typeface below. A row of geometric arrow and chevron motifs serves as a decorative divider between the issuer name and the large denomination legend 'Vale por 25 cts.' A serial number is printed vertically along the left margin, with the legal tender clause 'Billete de curso legal y obligatorio en esta población' set in smaller italic type at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a single rectangular ink stamp applied to centre, reading 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALCAMPEL (Huesca)' in two lines within a chamfered rectangular border; the remainder of the reverse is unprinted. |
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Alcampel is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the coinage supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. These hyper-local municipal issues — often produced on whatever paper was available, sometimes with rubber stamps or basic letterpress — circulated almost exclusively within the issuing community itself, accepted out of necessity rather than confidence.
The Gari Monetary catalog remains the primary reference for Aragonese municipal issues, and many in this series survive in surprisingly small numbers given how recently they were printed.