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25 Céntimos Monterrubio de la Serena
| Issuer | Monterrubio de la Serena, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain reddish-brown card stock with all text applied in black letterpress. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top in bold capitals, followed by 'MONTERRUBIO DE LA SERENA' underlined on the second line. The denomination 'Vale por 25 céntimos' is centred, below which a hand-stamped serial number prefixed 'Nº' is printed, with the date 'Septiembre 1937.' at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reddish-brown card stock, otherwise blank, bearing a large circular official municipal stamp applied in red ink and positioned slightly left of centre. The stamp impression is inverted relative to the obverse orientation and carries the issuing authority's legend around its border. |
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Monterrubio de la Serena is a small agricultural municipality in Badajoz province, Extremadura — territory that fell under Republican control during the early months of the Civil War before Nationalist forces swept through the region. Like hundreds of Extremaduran towns in 1937, Monterrubio issued its own fractional emergency currency (known collectively as billetes locales or moneda de necesidad) because Republican-zone small change had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or destroyed as the front shifted.
The Gari catalogue documents this issue as Mon#950-A, suggesting at least one variant exists. Survival rates for these hyper-local emissions are unpredictable — some town issues were printed in tiny quantities and used hard, others were barely circulated before the issuing authority collapsed.