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25 Céntimos Fondón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fondón |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency note printed in green and violet on plain paper, with a multi-rule rectangular border composed of dotted and chain-link ornamental frames. The denomination '25 CTS.' appears in large green letterpress type within a decorative panel at the left, flanked by small sunburst vignettes at the lower corners. The issuer's name is set in green script across the upper centre, with the redemption text in mixed roman and bold type below; a violet official municipal stamp and a diagonal rectangular ink control stamp are applied over the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Fondón 25 CTS. Vale por veinte y cinco céntimos pagaderos en billetes del Banco de España. El Depositario, PAPELERIA LACOSTE - ALMERIA (Translation: Municipal Council of Fondón / 25 Centimos / It is worth twenty-five centimos payable in Bank of Spain notes. / The Depositary,) |
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Fondón is a tiny village in the Alpujarra region of Almería province, and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional paper during the Civil War after the Republic's small coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936. These local council emissions — known collectively as billetes locales — were produced in enormous variety across Republican-held territory, with quality and survival rates tied directly to how long a given town remained behind Republican lines.
Papelería Lacoste in Almería supplied printing services to several Alpujarran municipalities during this period, which makes attribution relatively reliable for this note — an unusual advantage in a series where many comparable emissions were produced anonymously or on office typewriters.