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25 Céntimos Barrax
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Barrax |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on plain paper with a decorative border of small squares framing the entire note. An oval vignette of the Spanish Republican coat of arms is centered between the issuer text, dividing the two lines of the issuing authority. All text and border elements are printed in black ink. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE BARRAX (Albacete) PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 25 CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council of Barrax (Albacete) Will pay the bearer 25 Centimos) |
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Barrax is a small municipality in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after silver and copper coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely by late 1936. These local council notes — known collectively as "moneda municipal de necesidad" — were produced under wildly variable conditions, often on whatever paper stock was available, with rudimentary printing or even rubber-stamp authorization.
The Gari Mon reference being incomplete signals this issue hasn't been fully cataloged, which is not unusual for the smaller Castilla-La Mancha emissions. Survivors are scarce simply because production runs were tiny and the notes were redeemed or discarded once normal currency returned.