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25 Céntimos Onda
| Issuer | Onda, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on light stock, the note is framed by a wide ruled border. The municipal coat of arms of Onda appears to the left, with denomination and issuing authority inscriptions arranged across the face in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse, left blank or with minimal printed content, consistent with the utilitarian production methods typical of Spanish Civil War emergency municipal issues. |
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Onda is a ceramic-producing town in Castellón province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities in 1937, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by wartime demand. These local *vales* and *cartones* were legal only within the issuing municipality and had no status beyond the town's own commerce.
At 38 × 30 mm on thick card, this is a genuinely tiny piece of fiscal infrastructure — printed locally under conditions that were anything but orderly. The Garrió Montaner census reference (1033-B) suggests a variant within the series, meaning at least one other emission exists.