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25 Céntimos Ceutí
| Issuer | Ceutí, Municipality of |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#524-A |
| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative geometric border of repeated foliate ornaments running along all four edges. To the upper left, the series designation "Serie A" appears above a shield-shaped vignette formed by a dotted ornamental cartouche enclosing the issuer name "PUEBLO DE CEUTÍ" in bold letterpress. The denomination "Vale por 25 céntimos" is set in large type to the right, accompanied by a manuscript signature in red ink below the legend "LA COMISIÓN:", and a handwritten serial number in the upper right field. Along the lower margin, the guarantee clause "Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España" is printed in a single line. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie A PUEBLO DE CEUTÍ Vale por 25 céntimos por LA COMISIÓN: Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España (Translation: Series A / Town of Ceutí / Voucher for 25 Centimos / by THE COMMISSION: / Guaranteed with banknotes from the Bank of Spain) |
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Ceutí is a small municipality in the Murcia region of southeastern Spain, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War period when metallic coin virtually disappeared from everyday commerce. These local emergency notes — collectively known as billetes locales or papel moneda local — were typically authorized by Republican-controlled municipal councils after 1936 to keep small transactions moving when the central supply of low-denomination coinage collapsed entirely.
Documentation on the Ceutí issues is thin. The Gari catalogue remains the primary reference, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce simply because production runs for minor municipalities were small and most notes were redeemed or destroyed after the war.