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25 Céntimos Altura
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Altura |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock note printed in black letterpress, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority appears in two lines at the top — CONSEJO MUNICIPAL in standard roman type above ALTURA in widely spaced capitals — separated from the lower text by a double horizontal rule. A handwritten serial number field reading Núm. is followed by the bearer clause Pagará al Portador, with the denomination 0'25 cts. set in bold type at the foot. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Altura is a small municipality in Castellón province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency when coins vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. These local issues — known collectively as moneda local or billetes de necesidad — were produced under extreme improvisation, often on whatever card stock or paper was at hand, with an official stamp serving as the primary guarantee of validity.
The Gari Montaner reference is incomplete, which is typical for minor Castellón issues that survive in tiny quantities and were never fully catalogued.