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25 Céntimos Mancha Real
| Issuer | Mancha Real, Municipality of |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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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 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain cream stock and left largely blank, bearing only a circular official rubber stamp in red ink at left centre, the impression substantially faded and bled through from handling, rendering its legend illegible. |
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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.