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25 Céntimos La Unión
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Unión |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border incorporating repeated rose vignettes at the corners and along the perimeter. The left field carries the issuing authority text and denomination in large letterpress script, with the dateline "La Unión, Junio 1937" below; a subsidiary cartouche to the right, enclosed by a floral border, displays the numeral "25" above "CENTIMOS." Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left beneath their respective role titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0`25 PTA. (Translation: 0.25 Peseta) |
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La Unión, a small mining town in Murcia, issued its own fractional emergency paper during the Spanish Civil War under the system of billetes locales — a decentralized monetary improvisation that produced thousands of distinct issues across Republican-held territory when the central government in Madrid lost effective control of coin supply. The Republican authorities had effectively requisitioned most bronze and copper for the war effort, creating an acute shortage of small change that municipal councils, trade unions, and even individual businesses scrambled to fill with printed or stamped paper.
The Gari Montserrat reference places this among the documented Murcian municipal series, though survival rates for La Unión fractionals are uneven — the town's mining population used these hard.