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25 Céntimos Génave
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Génave |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. Two horizontal rule bands formed by closely spaced parallel lines run across the top and bottom of the note, framing the central text area. The issuing authority appears in bold capitals across the upper field, with the denomination voucher text in a larger typeface below, all set in a simple, utilitarian layout consistent with wartime emergency issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL GENAVE (JAEN) Vale por 25 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Génave (Jaén) Voucher for 25 Centimos) |
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Génave is a tiny municipality in the Sierra de Segura, Jaén province — population well under a thousand even today. During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of local councils across the Republican zone issued their own fractional emergency currency when small coinage effectively disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted. The Consejo Municipal de Génave was among the most obscure of these issuers, which is precisely why its notes survive in such limited numbers.
The heavy card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale — thicker substrate resisted the wear of hand-to-hand exchange in a community where a replacement print run was essentially impossible.