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25 Céntimos Lillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Lillo |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red on plain white paper stock, with the issuer's name in bold capitals across the top and the denomination numeral '0'25' at the upper right. A dotted guilloche border strip runs horizontally beneath the header, with a vertical dotted geometric underprint panel along the left margin. The bearer promise and denomination in words are set in graduated typefaces at centre, above two signature lines for 'El Presidente' and 'El Consejero de Hacienda', accompanied by a circular blue official municipal stamp at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on unadorned white paper with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind. |
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Lillo is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued fractional paper money to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation after 1936. The Republican government's decree authorizing local emergency issues gave legal cover to these councils, but production standards varied wildly — many were little more than rubber-stamped cardboard.
The Gari Montalban catalog remains the primary reference for these Spanish local issues, and the 823-A designation places this firmly within the documented Lillo series. Survivorship for provincial Castilian issues of this type is uneven; wartime destruction and post-war suppression of Republican-era material thinned the supply considerably.