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25 Céntimos Oria
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Oria |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1043-A |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular violet ink validation stamp applied to the reverse as an authentication mark. |
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Oria is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-held areas faced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage. The Consejo Municipal became the de facto monetary authority for everyday transactions — bread, fuel, small commerce — filling a vacuum the central government couldn't address fast enough.
The Garicano Moya catalog entry places this among the rarest tier of Almería provincial issues. Municipal scrip from villages of this size survives in very small numbers; most was redeemed, repudiated, or simply lost when the Nationalist advance through Andalusia ended local council authority in 1939.