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25 Céntimos Ciudad Real
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ciudad Real |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue note with a geometric border frame enclosing the central design. A circular vignette at centre contains the crowned local coat of arms of Ciudad Real, surrounded by a star motif. Issuing authority and denomination inscriptions are distributed across the face within the framed field. |
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| Reverse description | Light blue note with a central vignette of a walled city gate of Toledo, flanked on either side by two winged mythological animals. The denomination and issuing authority legend are arranged around the central design within a plain border. |
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Ciudad Real's municipal council issued these emergency fractional notes — known collectively as papel moneda local — during the Civil War period when coin shortages became acute across Republican-held Spain. The scarcity was partly deliberate: copper and silver had been systematically pulled from circulation to support the war effort, leaving local governments to fill the vacuum with whatever printing resources they had on hand.
Gari Mon#542-A suggests this falls within the better-documented Castilian municipal issues, though Ciudad Real examples surface far less often at auction than comparable notes from Barcelona or Valencia. Condition problems are common — the paper stock used by provincial councils in this period was rarely archival grade.