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| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera de Fuente Pedro Naharro |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in black by letterpress, enclosed within a decorative border of repeated ornamental cartouches and interlocking geometric chain motifs running along all four edges. The issuer's name appears in a single line across the upper field, separated from the central text by a short rule; the denomination 'Vale por 25 Cts.' is set in a larger script typeface at centre, with the place and date 'Fuente Septiembre de 1937' below. A 'Sello' (seal) notation occupies the lower right quadrant, indicating where an official stamp was to be applied, and the printer's imprint 'Antona, Tarancón' runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Cooperativa Obrera de Fuente P. Naharro Vale por 25 Cts. Fuente Septiembre de 1937. Sello Antona, Tarancón (Translation: Workers' Cooperative of Fuente Pedro Naharro / Voucher for 25 Centimos / Fuente, September 1937. / Seal / Antona, Tarancón) |
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Fuente de Pedro Naharro is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla-La Mancha, and this 25 céntimos note was issued by its workers' cooperative during the Spanish Civil War — one of hundreds of local emergency fractional issues that flooded Republican-held territory after the nationalist uprising disrupted coin circulation in 1936. The Banco de España had effectively stopped supplying small change to Republican zones, and municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions filled the gap themselves, printing on whatever card stock was available.
The Gari Montaner catalogue documents this as a single known type for this issuer, suggesting the cooperative's emissions were limited in scope. Survival rate for these hyper-local wartime cardboard issues is unpredictable — some villages produced tens of thousands, others barely hundreds.