25 Céntimos Infantes

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.