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25 Céntimos Gálvez
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gálvez |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress text arranged with the issuer's name in an upper ribbon above the central vignette, which presents the local coat of arms flanked on one side by a uniformed soldier holding a bayonet with a castle in the background, and on the other side by a peasant bearing a pickaxe over his shoulder with ears of wheat behind him. The denomination and promise-to-pay legend are set in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GALVEZ (TOLEDO) PAGARA AL PORTADOR EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA 25 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council of Galvez (Toledo) Will pay the bearer in banknotes of the Bank of Spain 25 Centimos) |
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Gálvez is a small municipality in Toledo province, and its wartime municipal scrip belongs to the vast ecosystem of local emergency currency that proliferated across Republican Spain after July 1936, when the hoarding of metal coinage and small Banco de España notes effectively paralyzed everyday trade. The Consejo Municipal — the locally reconstituted governing body under Republican administration — issued these céntimos notes out of practical necessity, not monetary ambition.
The Gari Mon reference (692-A) suggests at least one variant exists within the series. Provincial scrip of this origin survives in extremely limited quantities; most Toledo municipality issues were produced in small print runs and saw hard local use before the Nationalist advance through the region rendered them worthless.