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25 Céntimos Mateo de las Fuentes
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mateo de las Fuentes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MATEO DE LAS FUENTES Núm. Pagará al Portador 0`25 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Mateo de las Fuentes No. Will pay the bearer 0.25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of coarse fibrous paper stock, bearing only faint pencil or ink manuscript notations in the upper right corner, likely added by a later hand and not part of the original issue. |
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Mateo de las Fuentes is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castile. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — forcing hundreds of local councils to issue their own emergency scrip. This note is one of those hyper-local solutions, authorized under the broad emergency powers exercised by Republican municipal governments from 1936 onward.
The Gari Montserrat catalog documents over a thousand such issues from Cuenca province alone, which gives some sense of how atomized this emergency currency system became.