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25 Céntimos Almonacid
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almonacid (Toledo) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper stock with all text rendered in red letterpress. The issuer's name, 'Consejo Municipal de Almonacid (Toledo)', is set in two lines across the upper portion, separated from the denomination by a pair of parallel horizontal rules. The denomination '25 céntimos' appears in large bold type across the lower half of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Almonacid (Toledo) 25 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Almonacid (Toledo) 25 Centimos) |
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Almonacid de Toledo issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage forced hundreds of municipalities across Republican-held Spain to produce local scrip. These consejo municipal notes were never legal tender beyond the village itself — typically a few hundred residents — and were redeemable only while the issuing authority remained in control. Many were never redeemed at all.
Provincial Toledan emergency notes are among the more difficult Civil War locals to trace, partly because documentation from smaller ayuntamientos was frequently destroyed or lost during the Nationalist advance through Castile in 1936–39.