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25 Céntimos Huércal-Overa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Huércal-Overa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress note printed on white paper within a rectangular frame with hatched side borders. A scrolled ribbon banner at the top carries the issuer inscription, surmounted by the heading REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA, with denomination value tablets in diamond-shaped cartouches at the upper corners and circular value roundels at the lower corners. The municipal coat of arms forms the central vignette, flanked by the manuscript signature of the Presidente and a printed serial number to the right. The denomination VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS appears in a straight legend along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | La Caja Municipal de Huércal-Overa pagará al portador, en billetes del Banco de España, la cantidad de VEINTICINCO CENTIMOS Huércal-Overa 1º mayo 1937. (Translation: The Huércal-Overa Municipal Fund will pay the bearer, in Bank of Spain banknotes, the amount of Twenty-five Centimos Huércal-Overa, 1 May 1937.) |
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Huércal-Overa is a small agricultural municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued paper fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted in sufficient quantity. These emergency municipal issues, known collectively as billetes locales, were produced with whatever printing resources the town had on hand, which in most cases meant a local press and minimal security features.
Gari Mon#771-A is among the more obscure Almería provincial emissions. Documentation on total print runs for Huércal-Overa is fragmentary, and genuine circulation wear on surviving examples is common precisely because these notes filled real daily transactional needs in a market stripped of small change.