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25 Céntimos Montealegre del Castillo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Montealegre del Castillo |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#948-A |
| Obverse description | Light lilac note with a central vignette of a seated allegorical crowned female figure holding a caduceus in one hand and a bag of money in the other, personifying the Spanish Republic. Surrounding inscriptions identify the issuing municipal council and the local paper money status of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CTS CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MONTEALEGRE DEL CASTILLO PAPEL MONEDA DE VALOR LOCAL (Translation: 25 Centimos Municipal Council of Montealegre del Castillo Local value paper money) |
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Montealegre del Castillo is a small municipality in the Albacete province of Castile-La Mancha, and this 25 céntimos note belongs to the wave of emergency fractional currency — known collectively as "papel moneda local" — that flooded Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after 1936. The Nationalists' blockade of silver and copper coinage caused an almost total collapse of small-denomination liquidity, forcing hundreds of municipal councils to print their own scrip simply to keep local commerce moving.
Most pieces from villages this size were produced in tiny print runs, often on whatever paper was at hand. Survival rates are accordingly low, and the Gari catalog remains the primary reference for this otherwise sparsely documented issue.