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25 Céntimos Fuente el Fresno
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fuente el Fresno |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress on olive-green card stock in black ink, with the issuer legends 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' and 'FUENTE EL FRESNO' arranged on two lines at the top, each separated from the body text by ruled horizontal lines. The central legend reads 'Vale por 25 céntimos', with the date 'Julio, 1937' at lower left and a typeset serial number at lower right. The design is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on the same olive-green card stock, bearing no inscriptions, vignettes, or design elements of any kind; only the natural texture of the thick paper substrate is visible. |
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Fuente el Fresno is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional paper money in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of small coins from circulation. The Republican government's decree authorizing municipal emergency issues gave legal cover to these notes, but production quality and surviving quantities varied wildly from town to town.
The Gari Montllor reference number is unassigned, suggesting this piece was either unknown to the cataloguer or documented too late for inclusion. That gap alone marks it as genuinely scarce material.