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25 Céntimos Bienservida
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bienservida |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BIENSERVIDA VALE LOCAL DE CAMBIO 25 CTS. IMP. COLLADO. Albacete (Translation: Municipal Council of Bienservida Local exchange voucher 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unprinted, as typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues of this period. |
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Bienservida is a small municipality in the Sierra de Alcaraz, Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War when Republican-zone coinage all but vanished from circulation. The Consejo Municipal series was a strictly local solution — printed at Collado's press in Albacete city and distributed to cover day-to-day transactions that coins would otherwise have handled.
Collado produced municipal emergency notes for several Albacete-province towns during this period, which means the print quality is workmanlike but consistent across the series. The Gari catalogue reference 332-A suggests at least one variant exists within the Bienservida issue.