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25 Céntimos Linares
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Linares (Municipality of Linares) |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Linares VALE PROVISIONAL DE 25 céntimos (Translation: City Council Linares Provisional voucher of 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain orange-tinted paper reverse, largely unprinted, bearing a single circular municipal rubber stamp in violet ink applied off-centre toward the right. Two fragments of adhesive tape are visible at left, likely remnants of period handling or repair. |
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Linares, in the province of Jaén, was one of the most industrially significant mining towns in early twentieth-century Spain — lead and silver extraction had made it unusually prosperous by regional standards. During the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, the national currency supply collapsed at the local level, and hundreds of Spanish municipalities issued their own emergency fractional notes to keep small commerce moving. The Ayuntamiento de Linares was among them.
The sole security feature is an official municipal stamp — ink on paper, nothing more. Forgery was a genuine concern with these issues, and the stamp was the only check against it.