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25 Céntimos La Puerta de Segura
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Puerta de Segura |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on thick card stock, with a large bold numeral '25' occupying the left half of the note. To the right, the issuing authority's name is arranged in stacked lines separated by short horizontal rules, with the denomination 'céntimos' in a bold serif typeface along the lower right. The unadorned layout is typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues, entirely without vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Plain card stock reverse with no printed design. A faint red handstamp impression, likely an authorizing municipal seal or signature stamp, is visible near the centre, consistent with validation practice on Spanish Civil War emergency cartón issues. |
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La Puerta de Segura is a small municipality in the sierra of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of similarly isolated Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued emergency scrip during the Civil War when the Republic's central coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937. The Consejo Municipal — the republican municipal council — authorized these cartones as a stopgap, printed or hand-stamped on whatever card stock was available locally. National banking infrastructure had effectively ceased to function at the village level.
The Gari Montaner catalogue remains the primary reference for these provincial emisiones de guerra, and the 1194-A designation suggests at least one variant exists within the series.