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25 Céntimos Calzada de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Calzada de Calatrava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
| Obverse description | Plain buff card stock with all text applied by letterpress in black ink. The issuer title CONSEJO MUNICIPAL appears at the top in bold uppercase, separated from the locality name Calzada de Calatrava by a full-width rule; below, the denomination Vale por 25 céntimos is set in a larger typeface. The date Mayo, 1937 and a sequential serial number appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain buff card stock, showing only the natural texture and slight mottling of the coarse paper substrate, with faint impressions from the obverse letterpress type visible in raking light. |
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Calzada de Calatrava is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These municipal vales were legal only within the issuing township, redeemable in theory once normal commerce resumed.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, which typically indicates the piece was uncatalogued at time of publication — not unusual for the smaller Castilian municipalities whose issues surfaced long after the main corpus was documented.