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25 'Céntimos' Andorra
| Issuer | Colectividad de Andorra (Teruel) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-violet ink by letterpress, the note is enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. A central vignette renders three workers digging with shovels in a simple, typographically spare style characteristic of Spanish Civil War emergency issues. The issuing authority and denomination appear in letterpress text distributed within the frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting bare paper stock with no design elements, inscriptions, or security features. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of municipalities and local collectives in Republican-held territory issued emergency paper scrip — moneda local — to address an acute shortage of small coinage. This 25 céntimos note was issued not by the Andorra in the Pyrenees but by Andorra, a small municipality in Teruel province, Aragon. The two are routinely confused in early catalog references, and the Gari Monografies number remains unassigned, suggesting documentation of this specific emission is still incomplete.
Teruel province saw some of the war's most brutal fighting in 1937–38, and very few of these locally issued scrip pieces survived intact.