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25 Céntimos Canjáyar
| Issuer | Canjáyar, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed in black on plain paper stock, the obverse is enclosed within a repetitive scroll-and-rosette border running along all four edges. The heading "MONEDA LOCAL" appears in bold uppercase lettering across the top, while the denomination numeral "25" is set to the left and the abbreviation "cts" to the right, flanking a central rectangular panel inscribed "Vale por VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS". The issuing municipality and date "CANJÁYAR 1.º MAYO 1937" are letterpress-printed along the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | Oval blue ink municipality control stamp applied to the reverse, accompanied by a handwritten serial number |
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Canjáyar is a small municipality in the Alpujarra region of Almería province, and like hundreds of similar villages across Republican-held Spain, it issued its own fractional paper currency during 1937 to address the acute shortage of metallic small change — a problem that struck hard after silver and copper coins vanished into hoarding within months of the July 1936 uprising. These municipal emissions were typically authorized under the broad emergency framework tolerated by the Republican government rather than any formal centralized mandate.
The Gari Monetario reference is unassigned, reflecting how thinly documented many Alpujarran village issues remain. Surviving examples are genuinely rare simply because the issuing population was small and redemption, where it occurred at all, was often chaotic.