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25 Céntimos Finestrat
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Finestrat |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the note is enclosed within an ornate Art Nouveau-style wavy border composed of interlaced ribbon motifs. The issuer's name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL :·: FINESTRAT appears in bold letterpress across the upper field, followed by the denomination VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS in large capitals at centre. Below, two signature lines are designated El Depositario and El Presidente, each bearing a manuscript signature in red ink. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the reverse is divided by a vertical rule into two fields: the face value numeral 25 appears to the left and the serial number to the right, enclosed within a plain rectangular border consistent with the austere typographic style of Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency issues. |
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Finestrat is a small municipality in the Alicante province, and like hundreds of similarly modest Spanish towns during the Civil War, it was forced to produce its own emergency fractional currency when coin shortages became acute after 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation pushed the burden of daily transactions onto local councils — many of which had no banking infrastructure, no printing equipment, and no meaningful experience issuing currency.
The Gari Montané catalogue (the standard reference for Spanish Civil War local issues) lists this as 648-A, implying at least one variant exists. Survival rates for Finestrat municipal notes are low — the town's wartime population was small, total print runs were modest, and postwar possession of Republican-era paper carried real political risk.