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25 Céntimos Floreal del Raspeig
| Issuer | Floreal del Raspeig, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 céntimos El Consejo Municipal DE Floreal del Raspeig (ALICANTE) pagará al portador veinticinco céntimos. Floreal del Raspeig, Julio 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Floreal del Raspeig (Alicante) will pay the bearer Twenty-five Centimos. Floreal del Raspeig, July 1937) |
| Reverse description | Printed in pink, the reverse presents the local coat of arms at centre, enclosed within a decorative perimeter frame composed of geometric and floral guilloche-style ornaments. The denomination and issuing council name are inscribed in plain letterpress text. |
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Floreal del Raspeig was a small municipality in the province of Alicante, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. Hoarding, melting, and wartime disruption had stripped the monetary system of its copper and nickel, leaving communities to improvise with locally printed paper.
Gari Mon #652-A places this squarely within the vast documented corpus of Valencian Community emergency issues, though survival rates for these village-level emissions vary enormously — many were printed in very small runs and redeemed locally before the war ended.