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25 Céntimos Dólar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Dólar |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue-black ink on plain grey paper, with a decorative dotted and ruled rectangular border forming the perimeter frame. The denomination '25 CTS.' appears in the upper left panel alongside two small triangular vignettes and a fan motif in the lower left corner, while the issuer heading 'Consejo Municipal de DOLAR' occupies the upper centre in bold gothic and display lettering. A cursive italic legend in the centre field states the redemption clause, followed by the written-out denomination 'Veinticinco céntimos' at lower left, a manuscript signature of the Depositario at centre right, and the printer imprint 'Papelería Lacoste-Almería' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CTS. Consejo Municipal de DOLAR Valor depositado reintegrable en billetes del Banco de España Veinticinco céntimos Papelería Lacoste-Almería (Translation: 25 Centimos Municipal Council of Dólar Deposited value refundable in banknotes of the Bank of Spain Twenty-five Centimos) |
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Dólar is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of similar Spanish townships it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War period after the Republic's small-change supply collapsed in 1936. Municipal councils across Andalusia scrambled to keep local commerce moving, and Papelería Lacoste in Almería supplied printed necessity notes to several of these councils — a stationer filling a gap the banking system could not.
The Garicoinstituto reference is incomplete, which is common for the smaller Andalusian municipal emissions. Survivorship for these hyper-local pieces is poor; most circulated hard in tight communities and were never formally redeemed.