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25 Céntimos Alhambra
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alhambra |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink card stock by letterpress, the obverse bears the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL in bold uppercase at the top, separated from the town name ALHAMBRA by two horizontal rules above and below. The denomination Vale por 25 céntimos is set in the centre field, with the date Julio, 1937 and a handwritten serial number at the lower left and right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same pink card stock and is largely plain, bearing a partially legible circular official stamp in reddish-pink ink at the lower centre, with the word CONSEJO readable along the lower arc. A handwritten collector reference notation appears in pencil at the upper right corner. |
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Alhambra is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. This 25 céntimos emergency note was issued by its local municipal council during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage forced hundreds of towns across loyalist Spain to produce their own emergency fractional currency — locally called moneda de necesidad. The Consejo Municipal had no access to professional printers; most of these issues were produced on whatever card stock or heavy paper was locally available, which accounts for the variable quality seen across surviving examples.
Catalogued under Gari Mon #124-A, this belongs to a vast and still incompletely documented category of Spanish Civil War emergency issues.