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25 Céntimos Caravaca
| Issuer | Caravaca, Municipality of |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR 25 CENTIMOS EL PRESIDENTE DEL C. M. (Translation: Voucher for 25 Centimos The President of the M (Municipal) C (Council)) |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in red on cream paper, shows show-through of the obverse letterpress impression and retains the same decorative border of repeating square motifs running along the full perimeter; the central field is otherwise unprinted. |
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Caravaca de la Cruz issued its own fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, as did hundreds of other municipalities cut off from reliable central bank supply. These local emissions — often called billetes de necesidad — were produced under improvised conditions, and Caravaca's 25 céntimos issue reflects exactly that urgency. The Gari Monerris catalog is the primary reference for Republican-era Spanish local paper, and the 447-A designation places this firmly within the documented Levante regional emissions.
Survival rates for municipal fractions of this type are erratic — some towns produced thousands, others a few hundred, and wartime destruction of local records makes print run data nearly impossible to reconstruct for Caravaca specifically.