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25 Céntimos Montoro
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Montoro (Municipality of Montoro) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Montoro 25 céntimos (Translation: City Council of Montoro 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a pre-printed ration table in black ink, with a grid ruled into numbered rows (1 through at least 5) and columns headed by month names, including "Mayo" (May) and "Junio" (June), under the heading "MESES" (Months). A decorative calligraphic initial letter appears in the lower right corner. The note was clearly repurposed from an existing ration booklet page. |
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Montoro is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of the official coinage supply — driven by hoarding, melting, and the general breakdown of the Republican monetary system — forced hundreds of municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional paper, known as papel moneda local. This 25 céntimos note is one such piece, almost certainly from 1936 or 1937.
At 45 × 32 mm, these municipal issues were printed under whatever local means were available — frequently a town printer with a simple press, no security features, and paper pulled from commercial stock. The Gari catalogue remains the principal reference for Spanish Civil War local issues; the Mon#962-E suffix indicates a specific variety within the Montoro sequence.