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25 Céntimos Las Mesas
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Las Mesas |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on pink card stock, the face is framed by a rectangular border with rounded corner brackets and a small diamond ornament at the lower right. A circular rosette device occupies the upper left corner, adjacent to the underlined issuer inscription spanning the top of the note. The denomination legend is set in two lines of bold block lettering in the lower half of the vignette area. |
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| Obverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO LAS MESAS (CUENCA) VALE por 25 Céntimos (Translation: City Council Las Mesas (Cuenca) Voucher for 25 Centimos) |
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Las Mesas is a small municipality in the Cuenca province of Castile–La Mancha, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it resorted to locally issued fractional notes — emergency paper for day-to-day commerce — during the Civil War period when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. These municipal emissions were improvised, often printed on whatever card stock was available, and carried no formal banking infrastructure behind them. Redemption was essentially a matter of local trust.
The incomplete Gari Moné reference suggests this piece has not been fully catalogued or authenticated within that corpus — a situation common with the smallest Castilian emitters.