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25 Céntimos Castalla
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castalla |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Tipografía Moderna, Elda |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse centres on a circular panel bearing the face value, enclosed within a border of stylised mythological winged animal motifs. The imprint of the Tipografía Moderna of Elda appears in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | JULIO 1937 25 CENTIMOS TIP. MODERNA.-ELDA (Translation: July 1937 25 Centimos Tip. Moderna.-Elda) |
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Castalla is a small municipality in the Alicante province, and like dozens of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had largely vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted. These locally printed pieces, known collectively as moneda local or papel moneda municipal, were theoretically redeemable but in practice often became worthless once the war's front lines shifted.
Tipografía Moderna in nearby Elda printed for several Alicante-region municipalities during this period, which occasionally creates attribution confusion among collectors working from printing style alone.