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25 Céntimos Burriana
| Issuer | Burriana, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black, with a central vignette of a peasant woman and man at agricultural labour serving as a background element. The municipal coat of arms of Burriana is placed to the left, and the guarantee-of-circulation legend is printed across the centre, dated 1 December 1937. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 GARANTIZADO DE CIRCULACIÓN BURRIANA 1º DE DICIEMBRE DE 1937 (Translation: 25 Guaranteed Circulation, Burriana, 1 December 1937) |
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Burriana is a small coastal municipality in Castellón province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Republican government's decree authorizing local emergency currency opened the floodgates; the result was a chaotic proliferation of hyper-local scrip, much of it printed on whatever stock was available and in denominations too small to counterfeit profitably.
Gari Mon#375-F catalogues this as one of several Burriana fractional types. The municipality is better known for its orange-growing economy than its numismatic output, but the wartime scrip issues are among the few surviving paper records of daily commercial life there during the conflict.