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25 Céntimos Cañada de la Cruz
| Issuer | Consejo de Administración de Cañada de la Cruz |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark brownish-red on cream paper stock, the face is framed by a continuous floral and foliate ornamental border. The denomination 'VALE POR 25 CTS.' is set in large bold type at centre, above the locality name 'CAÑADA DE LA CRUZ'; a rectangular red validation stamp of the Consejo de Administración de Cañada de la Cruz (Moratalla) is applied at centre. A manuscript signature of the Tesorero del Consejo de Administración appears alongside the stamp as the authorising mark. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left blank on plain cream paper stock showing only age-related toning and handling marks consistent with wartime emergency issue. |
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Cañada de la Cruz is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local administrative council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Generalísimo's Nationalist forces controlled most silver-producing regions, and hoarding stripped the remainder from urban and rural commerce alike. These consejo-issued notes were a local patch — legally dubious, practically necessary.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, suggesting this piece was either unknown to the cataloger at time of publication or submitted too late for inclusion. Surviving examples from villages of this size are genuinely uncommon; print runs were small and most were redeemed or simply discarded after the war ended.