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25 Céntimos Fuente-Encarroz
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fuente-Encarroz |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular (Rounded corners) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress composition on coarse grey card stock, with a large bold numeral '25' occupying the left half of the note. To the right, the issuer name is set in bold serif type across three lines divided by short rules, with the denomination 'céntimos' in large bold italic lettering at the lower right, underlined by a double rule. The austere, utilitarian layout is characteristic of wartime municipal emergency currency produced without specialist printing facilities. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 céntimos Consejo Municipal DE FUENTE - ENCARROZ (Translation: 25 Centimos / Municipal Council of Fuente-Encarroz) |
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Fuente-Encarroz — today known as Font d'En Carròs — is a small agricultural municipality in the Valencia region, and this 25 céntimos note is a product of Spain's Civil War monetary breakdown. When the Republic's central banking supply chains collapsed in 1936–37, hundreds of Valencian municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency, often on whatever card stock was locally available. Fuente-Encarroz was among the smallest communities to do so, which makes surviving examples genuinely uncommon.
The Turró and Gari catalogues both document this issue, but population-adjusted survival rates for notes from villages of this size are poor.