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25 Céntimos Baeza
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Baeza (Municipality of Baeza) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on a buff-coloured paper stock with horizontal line underprint. The upper register bears the legend AYUNTAMIENTO DE in letterpress, below which three diamond-shaped rosette vignettes flank the denomination numeral 25 Cts. in the centre field. The issuer name BAEZA occupies the lower register in large bold letters, the entire design enclosed within a repeating meander border. |
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| Signature(s) | L. Bellón (El Alcalde) |
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Baeza's wartime scrip belongs to the enormous category of Spanish Civil War emergency municipal issues — local ayuntamientos across Republican-held territory printed their own small-denomination notes from 1936 onward once fractional coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Baeza, a small Andalusian town in Jaén province, remained in Republican hands through most of the conflict, and issues like this one plugged the gap left by hoarded or melted coin.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains the standard reference for these Spanish local issues. The #217-B suffix indicates a distinct variety within the Baeza 25 céntimos grouping — likely a paper or typography variant from the primary emission.