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25 Céntimos Belmez
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Belmez (Popular Front of Belmez) |
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| Size | 65 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain unprinted paper stock with all text applied by letterpress in black ink within a rectangular decorative border composed of repeating dotted and scalloped ornamental typographic units. The issuer inscription 'Frente Popular de Belmez' appears in the upper portion of the central panel, separated from the large-numeral denomination '25 CENTIMOS' below by a thin horizontal rule. A single bold vertical blue line crosses the entire note from top to bottom, passing through the centre of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | Frente Popular de Belmez 25 CENTIMOS (Translation: Popular Front of Belmez / 25 Centimos) |
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Belmez is a small mining town in Córdoba province, and like hundreds of other Republican-held municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the hoarding of coins — silver and copper alike — created an acute shortage of small change. These local Frente Popular emissions were never formally sanctioned by the Republican treasury in Madrid; they were improvised, often printed on whatever stock was available, and valid only within the issuing locality.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, suggesting this piece was either unknown or unverified at the time of cataloguing.