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25 Céntimos Muro de Alcoy
| Issuer | Muro de Alcoy, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red-brown on cream paper stock, the note is framed by a dotted scalloped border on the right and bottom edges and a wavy decorative band along the bottom. A four-digit serial number and a small asterisk ornament appear in the upper left. Small flag-like vignettes flank the large central denomination numeral, with the bearer clause text set above in letterpress across three lines and the place and date inscription below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a single oval rubber stamp applied in violet ink at centre, identifying a local merchant as the validating party, with lines of text indicating the business name, trade category, address, and locality. |
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Muro de Alcoy is a small municipality in the Valencian Community, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War it was forced to issue its own emergency fractional currency after the hoarding of metal coinage caused the small-change economy to collapse entirely. These local notes — known collectively as billetes de necesidad — were produced under Republican authority from 1936 onward, with municipal councils improvising design, printing, and distribution from whatever resources they had locally.
The Gari Montaner catalog remains the primary reference for Spanish municipal emergency issues, and the -B suffix on this reference suggests at least one earlier variant exists for this denomination from the same issuer.