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25 Céntimos La Guardia
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Guardia (Jaén) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper ground with all text applied by letterpress in dark blue ink. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal' is set in a large serif typeface at the top, with 'La Guardia (Jaén)' in a smaller roman font below, separated from the denomination line by a thin rule. The value statement 'Vale por 25 cts.' is printed in a bold cursive-style typeface across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise plain cream paper ground bearing a single red rubber-stamp impression at left-centre, showing the municipal arms of La Guardia: a crenellated tower flanked by two old-fashioned keys, one to each side. The stamp is applied in red ink and the remainder of the reverse is blank. |
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La Guardia — now known as Guarromán — issued this note during the Spanish Civil War period, when the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized municipal councils to produce small-denomination emergency paper money to address the acute shortage of fractional coinage that followed the outbreak of hostilities. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same, but survival rates vary enormously by locality, and notes from smaller Jaén towns are considerably scarcer than those from provincial capitals.
The Gari Montaner cataloguing remains the primary reference for these Spanish Civil War municipal emissions, though attribution and rarity assessments were compiled under considerable constraints given how many issues were poorly documented at the time.