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25 Céntimos Gijón, Fábrica de Vidrios Gijón Fabril
| Issuer | Gijón Fabril, Fábrica de Vidrios (Gijón, Province of Oviedo) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black and red on a yellow underprint, with the factory emblem incorporating geometric designs positioned centrally. The issuer name and denomination are set in bold letterpress text, with the serial number printed in black. All legends and the issuing authority are arranged in a structured typographic layout consistent with wartime emergency scrip production. |
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| Obverse lettering | GIJÓN FABRIL FABRICA DE VIDRIOS BILLETE DE REGIMEN INTERIOR 25 CENTIMOS GIJÓN 15 DE JULIO DE 1937 POR EL CONSEJO DE LA FABRICA (Translation: Gijón Fabril glass factory Internal regime note 25 Centimos Gijón, July 15, 1937 By the factory council) |
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Gijón Fabril was a glass manufacturing company, not a bank — and yet in 1937, like dozens of Asturian industrial firms, it was printing its own emergency small-change notes. The Republican north was effectively cut off from Madrid's monetary supply by that point, and local factories, cooperatives, and municipalities filled the vacuum with whatever printing resources they had on hand. This is a direct product of that isolation.
Asturias fell to Nationalist forces in October 1937, which puts a hard ceiling on how long these notes could have circulated — weeks, possibly a few months at most.