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25 Céntimos Higueruela
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Higueruela |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse bearing a hand-applied serial number in dark ink above a red oval validation stamp of the Consejo Municipal of Higueruela (Albacete), with the municipality's coat of arms at the centre of the stamp. A small printer's imprint reading A. G. SANCHEZ – ALMANSA appears at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL HIGUERUELA (Albacete) |
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Higueruela is a small municipality in Albacete province, Castile-La Mancha, and like hundreds of similar Spanish towns it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after metallic coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation by mid-1937. These local consejo notes were produced under desperate conditions — often on whatever paper stock was available — and the issuing authority rarely had access to professional printing equipment. Quality and consistency varied even within a single series.
Survival rates for Higueruela municipals are low. Small-town Spanish Civil War issues were produced in limited quantities, circulated intensely in very restricted geographic areas, and were rendered worthless almost immediately after Nationalist forces consolidated control of the region in 1939.