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25 Céntimos Bujalance
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Bujalance |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del F. POPULAR 25 cls. Bujalance (Translation: Popular Front Committee 25 Centimos Bujalance) |
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| Protection description | Circular hand-applied ink stamp in blue-violet on reverse, used as an authenticating validation mark |
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Bujalance is a small olive-growing town in the province of Córdoba, and like hundreds of other Republican-held municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, its local Frente Popular committee issued emergency fractional currency when the hoarding of coins created a paralysing shortage of small change. These locally-issued notes — collectively called "billetes de necesidad" or emergency money — were produced by town councils, trade unions, and Popular Front committees throughout the Republican zone from 1936 onward, most with minimal printing resources.
The Gari Monseny catalogue (the standard reference for Spanish Civil War local issues) places this at 371-C, indicating a variant within the Bujalance series. The official stamp is the primary authentication device — without it, the note was not considered valid tender even locally.