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25 Céntimos Martos
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Martos |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#889-C |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on cream-coloured card stock, with all text printed in black ink within a single rectangular border frame. The denomination "VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS" appears at the top in uppercase lettering separated from the main text block by a horizontal rule, below which the issuing authority "El Ayuntamiento de Martos," is set in large bold type across two lines, followed by the bearer clause and numeral denomination "25 cts." in the lower portion. The note is entirely textual with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS El Ayuntamiento de Martos, pagará al portador 25 cts. (Translation: Twenty-five Centimos The City Council of Martos, will pay the bearer 25 Centimos) |
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Martos is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and this 25 céntimos note belongs to the wave of locally-issued emergency paper money — known as billetes locales or cartones — that flooded Spain during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Hundreds of ayuntamientos printed their own scrip between 1936 and 1938, most on whatever stock was available, which is why thickness and card quality vary so widely within the same municipality's issues.
The Gari Monerris catalog remains the primary reference for this material, though attribution and survival rates for minor Andalusian towns are notoriously difficult to pin down.