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25 Céntimos Cabanes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cabanes |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE CABANES |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Cabanes is a small municipality in Castellón province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain in 1937, its local council was forced to produce its own fractional currency after the hoarding and disappearance of metallic coin created a near-total breakdown in everyday small transactions. These municipal emergency notes — issued under the broad authorization the Republican government extended to local bodies — were produced locally with whatever printing resources were at hand, which in most cases meant a rubber stamp for authentication was the only security measure anyone could realistically manage.
The Gari catalogue entry for this piece reflects how thinly documented most Castellón municipal issues remain. Survival rates vary wildly by town, often depending on nothing more than whether a single collector bothered to pass through in the 1940s.