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25 Céntimos Casinos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Casinos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted stock bearing a hand-applied oval violet rubber stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Casinos, with the legend arcing around the upper and lower borders of the oval and the Spanish Republican coat of arms impressed at centre. A small adhesive remnant is visible at the upper edge of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | CONS. MUNICI. / CASINOS |
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Casinos is a small municipality in the comarca of Camp de Túria, Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency small-change notes when coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning fractional coin supply forced municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions across the loyalist zone to print their own scrip — legally dubious but practically necessary.
The printer, Tip. M. Zamit of Meliana, was a local Valencian jobbing press that handled several such municipal issues in the region. The near-square format is a direct consequence of the card stock used — easier to cut in bulk than to print in standard banknote proportions.