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25 Centimos Alicante; replica
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Alicante (Alicante Municipal Council) |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1868-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and yellow emergency municipal note with guilloche-patterned geometric border framing the design. The crowned civic coat of arms of Alicante is centred at the top, above the denomination and issuing authority text. A replica overprint by the Real Casa de la Moneda (FNMT, 2003) appears in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CENTIMOS Serie C AYUNTAMIENTO DE ALICANTE Reembolsable por la Caja Municipal contra su presentación hasta el 30 de Junio de 1938 RCM-FNMT AÑO 2003 Real Casa de la Moneda Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (Translation: Alicante city council. Reimbursable by the Municipal Fund against its presentation until June 30, 1938 Royal Mint National Factory of Currency and Stamp) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency paper fractional currency. Alicante's ayuntamiento was one of many that turned to the FNMT in Madrid to produce these locally-issued pieces, an arrangement that gave them a degree of printing quality unusual for municipal emergency notes.
This is a modern replica. The originals are scarce but not rare; condition is the real variable, as wartime municipal notes from this period frequently circulated hard before the Nationalist advance ended their validity.