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25 Céntimos Algueña
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Algueña |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALGUEÑA ALICANTE |
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| Protection description | Oval violet ink municipal control stamp applied by hand to the reverse, incorporating the coat of arms of Algueña (Alicante) and the council's name as authentication. |
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Algueña is a small municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Murcia — population in the 1930s well under a thousand. This note is a product of the Spanish Civil War's chronic small-change crisis, when Republican-controlled municipalities across the country were forced to print their own fractional currency after metal coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937. The Consejo Municipal — the revolutionary municipal council installed under Popular Front governance — had no printing infrastructure worth the name, which shows.
The official stamp is the only security measure, and for a village this size, it was probably enough. Counterfeiting a 25-céntimo chit redeemable only in Algueña offered limited criminal upside.