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25 Céntimos Begíjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Begíjar |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in green ink on cream coarse paper stock, the note carries a ruled border along the upper and lower edges. The central field bears the denomination and issuing authority in bold typographic characters, with a serial number and small floral ornamental device set vertically along the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE por 25 ctms. que pagará el Consejo Municipal de BEGIJAR (Jaén) (Translation: It is worth 25 Centimos paid by the Municipal Council of Begíjar (Jaén)) |
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Begíjar is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War — a direct consequence of the 1936 coin shortage that stripped small denominations from circulation almost overnight. These local issues, broadly called "billetes locales" or "moneda de necesidad," were produced under Republican zone municipal authority and varied wildly in quality, paper stock, and printing sophistication depending on what each town council had at hand.
Begíjar's output is among the more obscure in the Jaén provincial group. Documentation on exact print runs is effectively nonexistent.