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25 Céntimos Mancha Real
| Issuer | Mancha Real, Municipality of |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on plain cream stock, printed entirely in black with no pictorial vignette. The issuer name MANCHA REAL is set in large bold capitals at the head of the note, framed above and below by ruled horizontal lines; the central denomination legend Vale por 25 céntimos appears in bold type with the numeral 25 enlarged for emphasis. A second ruled line below separates a three-line italic legend referencing the backing deposit held at the local branch of the Banco Español de Crédito. |
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| Obverse lettering | MANCHA REAL Vale por 25 céntimos contra depósito de igual cantidad en la sucursal del Banco Español de Crédito |
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Mancha Real is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. The Republican government had no mechanism to supply small change to every village, so local councils, cooperatives, and committees simply printed their own — with wildly varying degrees of craft and official sanction.
These municipal chits were never legal tender outside the issuing locality and became worthless the moment the local authority collapsed or changed hands.