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25 Céntimos Huéscar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Huéscar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note produced entirely in letterpress black typography, without vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuing authority name appears at the top in bold display type, followed by the bearer obligation clause in italics, with the large denomination numeral and text '25 CENTIMOS' in the centre. A red circular postal frank stamp of the Junta de Reforma de Correos de Huéscar is applied to the lower left, alongside two handwritten ink signatures in blue-violet at the lower portion of the note. A series letter and serial number are typeset at the upper centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Huéscar (Granada) PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 25 CENTIMOS EN PAPEL MONEDA DE CURSO LEGAL Huéscar y mayo 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Huéscar (Granada) Will pay the bearer 25 Centimos In legal tender paper money Huéscar, May 1937) |
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Huéscar is a small municipality in the far northeast of Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional notes in 1937 to offset the catastrophic shortage of small coinage — copper and silver had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation within months of the July 1936 uprising. The Consejo Municipal had no access to professional printers; these notes were produced locally, almost certainly by a commercial job printer or even a stationery shop.
The Gari Montero reference number is unassigned, suggesting this piece entered the cataloguing literature late or remains insufficiently documented — not unusual for the smaller Andalusian municipal emissions, many of which survive in single-digit quantities.