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25 Céntimos Peñalsordo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Peñalsordo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 67 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellowish-green paper ground with all text applied in black letterpress. The issuing authority and locality appear in the upper portion, with the issuer name and province underlined by rules; the denomination statement occupies the centre, and the date of issue together with a printed serial number appear along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PEÑALSORDO (Badajoz) Vale por 25 céntimos Agosto 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Peñalsordo (Badajoz) Voucher for 25 Centimos August 1937.) |
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Peñalsordo is a small village in Extremadura — population well under a thousand even today — and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional paper when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely in 1936–37. Republican-zone hoarding, melting, and export of metallic currency created a vacuum that no central authority could fill fast enough, so town councils stepped in with handstamped or printed scraps that technically had no legal backing beyond local trust.
The Garrido-Manzano catalog reference confirms this as a documented type, but village-level emisiones locales from Extremadura are consistently underrepresented in collections. Most circulated hard and briefly, then were discarded when the war moved on.