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25 Céntimos Carrizosa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Carrizosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on cream card stock, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority appears in the upper left in two lines, with a handwritten serial number to the right preceded by 'N.o'. The bearer payment clause is set in smaller type across the centre, with the denomination in large bold capitals on a separate line flanked by dashes. The place and date of issue are centred below, followed by the presidential signature line at lower right and the value restatement 'SON 25 CTS.' in bold at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of cream card stock, consistent with the locally produced emergency fractional currency issued by Spanish municipalities during the Civil War period to alleviate the scarcity of small-denomination coinage. |
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Carrizosa is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's failure to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation prompted hundreds of local councils — ayuntamientos and consejos municipales alike — to issue their own emergency fractional currency. This note is one of those local solutions, produced entirely within the town itself rather than by any commercial printer.
The use of thick card stock rather than conventional banknote paper was a deliberate pragmatic choice: heavier substrate resisted the wear of repeated hand-to-hand exchange better than thin paper in a climate of daily scarcity. Carrizosa's issue references in Gari are sparse, suggesting surviving examples are uncommon even by the already patchy standards of Spanish Civil War municipal scrip.