25 Céntimos Huércal-Overa

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.