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25 Céntimos Moratalla
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Moratalla |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#973-A |
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| Obverse lettering | EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE MORATALLA PAGARA AL PORTADOR 25 Céntimos Moratalla, 1.º de Marzo de 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Moratalla Will pay the bearer 25 Centimos Moratalla, March 1, 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted or bears only minimal markings, typical of locally produced Spanish Civil War emergency currency issued by the municipality of Moratalla, in the province of Murcia, Region of Murcia, where production resources were severely limited. |
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Moratalla is a small municipality in the mountains of Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local government issued its own emergency paper money when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Republican decree of late 1936 authorizing municipal emergency currency opened the floodgates — by 1937 the volume of local issues had become nearly unmanageable, with quality and backing varying wildly from town to town.
Gari Mon 973-A places this within a well-documented but genuinely obscure regional series. Survival rates for small Murcian municipal issues are unpredictable; many printings were tiny, but destruction was equally haphazard.