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25 Céntimos Conquista
| Issuer | Conquista, Municipality of |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an allegorical seated female figure representing the Spanish Republic, wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a torch, with the Republican coat of arms at her feet. The design is executed in black letterpress with a linear rectangular border framing the composition. Inscriptions in bold type identify the issuing authority and the note's exclusively local monetary status. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic flanked by two cornucopias below, set within a decorative perimeter floral frame. The overall design is printed in a simple letterpress style consistent with the emergency issue character of the note. |
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Conquista is a small municipality in Córdoba province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War period — specifically the 1936–1939 republican zone local currency crisis, when coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation due to hoarding and wartime disruption. These municipal *cartones* and paper *vales* were produced under chaotic conditions, often by local printers with no banknote experience, and their survival rates vary wildly depending on how aggressively each town recalled and destroyed them after the war.
The Gari Monerris catalogue remains the primary reference for these Spanish Civil War local issues.