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25 Céntimos Martos
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Martos |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock with a single rectangular border frame enclosing all text. The denomination and promise-to-pay legend are set in black letterpress type on an unadorned field, with the value numeral '25' and the word 'céntimos' rendered in a larger typeface at the base of the design. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely blank, printed on plain card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Martos is a municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued emergency fractional notes during the Civil War after Republican authorities requisitioned coins for the war effort. The near-total disappearance of small change from circulation in 1936–37 forced ayuntamientos, cooperatives, and even individual shops to print their own substitute scrip — this 25 céntimos piece is one such response. Gari Mon catalogues these Andalusian municipal issues systematically, and the #889-C suffix indicates a distinct variety within the Martos series, likely a paper or serial distinction.