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25 Céntimos Infantes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Infantes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on cream-coloured thick card stock. The issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL is set in bold capitals at the top, with INFANTES centred below and separated by horizontal rules. The denomination Vale por 25 céntimos appears in the middle register, followed by the date Junio, 1937 and a handwritten serial number at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of cream-coloured card stock, bearing two handwritten manuscript signatures applied in black ink across the centre of the note, with an additional handwritten notation in the lower left corner. |
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Infantes — now called Villanueva de los Infantes — is a small town in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. Like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency after metallic coin disappeared from circulation almost entirely in 1936–37. The Republican government had authorized local bodies to fill the gap, producing a chaotic proliferation of town-level issues that varied wildly in quality and material.
Thick card stock was the pragmatic choice for low-denomination municipals — it lasted longer in daily handling than thin paper and was easier to print on with whatever press the ayuntamiento had available. Gari's catalogue remains the standard reference for this material precisely because no central registry was ever kept.