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25 Céntimos Manzanares
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Manzanares |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | GARANTIZADO DE CIRCULACION El Consejo Municipal pagará al portador VENTICINCO CENTIMOS Manzanares, 1 Agosto 1937. Serie C. El Presidente El Depositario (Translation: Guaranteed of Circulation The Municipal Council will pay the bearer Twenty-Five Centimos Manzanares, 1 August 1937. Series C. The President The Depositary) |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress vignette on cream paper occupying the left three-quarters of the note, showing a peasant farmer guiding a plough drawn by two horses across a rural landscape, with a rising sun and rolling hills in the background. To the right, the bold denomination '25 cent.' is set vertically alongside a large blank circular field. The issuer's name is printed in a straight banner along the lower border. |
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Manzanares is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain ran catastrophically short of small-denomination coinage. The Consejo Municipal series from 1937 falls squarely within this phenomenon — locally authorized, locally printed, and intended for purely local circulation within the town's commercial network.
The Garrido Montañer reference places this among the better-documented provincial emissions, but survival rates for these small-format municipales vary sharply depending on print run and how quickly the town fell under Nationalist control.