25 Céntimos Alhambra

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.