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25 Céntimos Cehegín
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Cehegín (Municipality of Cehegín) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red, the note displays a geometric border framing the entire face, with an oval medallion to the left enclosing the local coat of arms of Cehegín. The central text block carries the municipal promise-to-pay legend in letterpress, with the denomination expressed both numerically and in full words. The issue date of 17 February 1937 and the issuing authority appear within the text body. |
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| Obverse lettering | 0`25 EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE CEHEGIN PAGARA AL PORTADOR VEINTICINCO CENTIMOS Cehegín 17 Febrero 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Cehegín Will pay the bearer Twenty-five Centimos Cehegín February 17, 1937) |
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Cehegín is a small municipality in the Murcia region, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's central supply of small coinage collapsed entirely. The hoarding of silver and copper coins after July 1936 created an acute shortage of change across Republican-held territory, forcing local ayuntamientos to fill the gap with paper or cardboard scrip of their own making.
These municipal emissions were produced under improvised conditions, which accounts for the considerable variation in print quality across surviving examples. Gari Mon#513-A places this within a documented local series, though Cehegín's emissions remain among the less-studied of the Murcia province issues.