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25 Céntimos Berja
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Berja |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset provisional voucher printed in red letterpress on a green geometric underprint, with a rectangular border of repeated geometric ornaments framing the entire face. The central text block carries the issuing authority and denomination in bold capitals, with the parenthetical geographic qualifier '(Almería)' set in a smaller typeface beneath the municipality name. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged paper stock, now heavily worn and stained, retaining faint ghost impressions of the obverse ink bleeding through the thin paper substrate. A handwritten collector notation appears in the upper right corner. |
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Berja is a small agricultural town in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it resorted to printing its own fractional paper during the Civil War after coins vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. These local emergency issues — collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes locales* documentation efforts — were produced under wildly variable conditions, often by local print shops with no experience in security printing. Quality control was minimal and regional, not national.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the Andalusian municipal issues, a series notorious for being poorly documented and frequently forged in the post-war period for the collector market.