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25 Céntimos Pedroñeras
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Pedroñeras (Municipality of Las Pedroñeras) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on grey-blue card stock, with a large bold numeral '25' occupying the left half of the note. To the right, the issuing authority is rendered in two-line uppercase serif lettering 'AYUNTAMIENTO DE PEDROÑERAS', separated by a short rule, with the denomination 'céntimos' in a larger serif typeface below, underlined by a solid rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO DE PEDROÑERAS 25 céntimos (Translation: City Council of Pedroñeras 25 Centimos) |
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Las Pedroñeras is a small Castilian municipality in Cuenca province, best known today for its garlic production. This 25 céntimos note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War–era local emergency issues — municipally printed fractional currency that proliferated from mid-1936 onward when the Republic's small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation, hoarded by a population with no confidence in what was coming.
The Gari Mon reference places this in the documented series, but local Cuenca issues at this denomination are genuinely scarce, with most surviving examples showing heavy use — these were working notes in a small town, not saved as curiosities until much later.