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25 Céntimos Menasalbas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Menasalbas |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Text-based design in black letterpress on an ocher geometric underprint, with decorative geometric border running along the perimeter. The central text block carries the issuing authority, denomination, and authorisation clause, presented in a plain typeset arrangement characteristic of wartime emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MENASALBAS (Toledo) Pagará al portador la cantidad de 25 Céntimos Emisión acordada por la Corporación municipal en 24 de Octubre de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Menasalbas Will pay the bearer the amount of 25 Centimos Issue agreed by the Municipal Corporation on October 24, 1937.) |
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Menasalbas is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency small-change notes when coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Republican government formally authorized local emergency currency under a decree of 12 January 1937, which gave retroactive legitimacy to issues already in use and prompted many councils to formalize what had been improvised. These céntimos notes were strictly local tender — valid only within the issuing municipality and typically redeemable, in theory, once the crisis passed.
The Gari catalog reference being incomplete suggests this specific denomination or variant may not have been formally documented at the time of cataloging, which is not unusual for the smaller Castilian issues.