25 Céntimos Génave

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.