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25 Céntimos Corral de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Corral de Calatrava |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in black letterpress with the issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" and "CORRAL DE CALATRAVA" separated by ruled lines across the upper field. The denomination "Vale por 25 céntimos" is set in bold type at centre, below which the date "Junio, 1937" and a serial number appear at lower left and right respectively. A circular municipal rubber stamp in red-violet ink, bearing a castle vignette and the legend of the Secretaría, is applied at centre-left. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain cream paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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Corral de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and this 25 céntimos note is a product of the Republican zone's acute small-change crisis of 1936–37. With silver coinage hoarded or melted and the central government unable to supply sufficient fractional currency to rural areas, hundreds of Spanish municipalities took it upon themselves to print emergency issues locally — often on whatever card stock was available, which accounts for the heavier substrate seen here.
Catalogued under Gari's regional emergency coinage reference rather than the standard Pick or Muntaner series, notes like this one were strictly local in acceptance and typically redeemed or discarded once the crisis eased.