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25 Céntimos Guadalajara
| Issuer | Guadalajara, Municipality of (Spain) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Orange letterpress text and a decorative floral border frame the note, with the municipal coat of arms of Guadalajara positioned to the left on a greenish underprint. The central text block carries the issuing authority, denomination, and redemption clause. The overall design is characteristic of the utilitarian emergency issues produced by Spanish municipalities during the Civil War period. |
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| Reverse description | Orange letterpress text on a plain background with the face value numeral set within a central circle, flanked by an ear of wheat and an olive branch as symbolic vignettes. Geometric border designs run along the perimeter, framing the text and central motifs. The composition reflects the spare graphic vocabulary typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Guadalajara municipality issued emergency fractional paper money during the Spanish Civil War because Republican-held areas suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation within months of the July 1936 uprising. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities, trade unions, and local committees printed their own notes to fill the gap, with wildly inconsistent quality and no central oversight.
The Garí Montserrat catalog (Gari Mon) remains the primary reference for this class of Spanish Civil War local issues. This particular piece from Guadalajara, a provincial capital that spent the entire war under Republican control despite heavy Nationalist pressure, belongs to a broader typological group that collectors now pursue as much for regional specificity as for the monetary history they document.