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25 Céntimos Horcajo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Horcajo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on cream paper with all text in black ink. A decorative floral and geometric chain border frames the entire face. The issuing authority 'Consejo Municipal de Horcajo' appears at the top, followed by the denomination 'Vale por 25 Cts.' in a larger Gothic script, the place and date 'Horcajo Septiembre de 1937' in the centre, a stamp designation 'Sello' to the right, and the printer imprint 'Antona, Tarancón' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse, left blank as was typical for locally produced Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency issued to alleviate the severe shortage of small-denomination coinage in the Republican zone. |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal issues produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when the near-total disappearance of small metallic coinage from circulation forced town councils to print their own scrip. Horcajo's 25 céntimos note was a purely local solution to a purely local problem — accepted at the shop, the mill, perhaps the cooperative, and nowhere else.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, which is not unusual. Many of these village-level emissions were printed in such small quantities that cataloguing has never been completed, and surviving examples surface rarely enough that condition varies wildly.