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25 Céntimos Chirivel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Chirivel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 57 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in blue ink, with the issuer name underlined at centre and the denomination numeral to the left. Geometric border ornaments frame the text block to the right, with the validity clause and date set in smaller type below the main legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 Consejo Municipal de CHIRIVEL Vale por veinticinco céntimos Junio 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Chirivel Valid for Twenty-five Centimos June 1937.) |
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Chirivel is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, its municipal council began issuing emergency fractional currency — billetes de necesidad — after the Civil War disrupted normal coin circulation from 1936 onward. The Republican zone faced a severe shortage of small change almost immediately, and local authorities filled the gap however they could: hand-stamped paper, cardboard, even cloth. An official stamp was the standard authentication mechanism when proper security printing was simply not available.
Gari Mon#533-B suggests a second known variety for this denomination, implying at least minor typographic or stamp differences between issues.