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25 Céntimos Alhama de Salmerón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alhama de Salmerón |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALHAMA DE SALMERON Vale 25 céntimos VALOR DEPOSITADO REINTEGRABLE EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA. SERIE C PAPELERIA LACOSTE - ALMERIA (Translation: Municipal Council of Alhama de Salmerón Value 25 Centimos Amount deposited refundable in banknotes of the Bank of Spain. Series C) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a circular municipal control stamp applied in red ink, overlaid by a single handwritten ink signature. Faint show-through of the obverse letterpress text is visible through the paper. |
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Alhama de Salmerón is a small municipality in the province of Almería, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency when coin shortages made small transactions impossible. The Republican government had effectively lost control of the metal coinage supply by 1936, forcing municipalities across loyalist territory to improvise. Papelería Lacoste, a commercial stationer in Almería city, supplied many of these local issues across the province — their imprint appears on several municipal emergency notes from the region.
The Gari catalogue reference (Mon#123-A) suggests at least one variant exists, though survival rates for these hyper-local issues are unpredictable.