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25 Céntimos Fuente la Lancha
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fuente la Lancha |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular municipal rubber stamp applied in red ink on the reverse, serving as the sole authenticating mark. |
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Fuente la Lancha is a village in the Sierra Morena foothills of Córdoba province, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone faced a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — forcing municipal councils across loyalist Spain to print their own emergency fractional currency. Thousands of these local emissions were authorized, most produced under improvised conditions with whatever printing resources the municipality could access.
The Gari Monerris census documents this emission, but surviving examples are genuinely rare. A village this small would have produced a limited run, and wartime paper rarely survived intact.