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25 Céntimos Dolores
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Dolores |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on plain paper, the obverse is composed entirely in letterpress within a geometric border frame with ornamental corner motifs enclosing the central text block. A stylized coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is integrated into the upper portion of the design, flanked by the issuing authority's name and the denomination rendered in bold typeface. The date 'MAYO 1937' appears within the lower text field, completing the austere typographic composition characteristic of Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | ABASTOS - 1937 CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE DOLORES 25 CENTIMOS (Translation: Supplies - 1937 Municipal Council of Dolores 25 Centimos) |
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Consejo Municipal de Dolores was one of hundreds of Spanish municipal bodies that issued emergency small-change notes — known collectively as billetes locales — during the Civil War, when the Republic's coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation through hoarding and melting. The Nationalist advance through Andalusia and the disruption of central supply chains left local governments with no practical option but to print their own fractional currency.
Dolores, a small municipality in Alicante province, remained under Republican control through 1937. These hyper-local emissions typically had very limited territorial acceptance and short useful lives, which paradoxically contributes to their survival — many were never spent.