Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Céntimos Polopos
| Issuer | Delegación de Abastos de Polopos |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown ink on orange-tan paper stock, the face carries a typeset letterpress design enclosed within a decorative rectangular border composed of interlocking chain-link and spindle motifs at the corners and midpoints. The issuing authority legend appears at the top in bold uppercase letters, separated from the value statement by a double rule. The denomination '25 céntimos' is set in a large serif typeface in the lower portion of the frame, preceded by the voucher clause 'VALE POR' in smaller capitals. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ALCALDIA DE POLOPOS (GRANADA) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Polopos is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of similar communities across Republican-held Spain, it resorted to locally issued emergency scrip during the Civil War when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Delegación de Abastos — a wartime supply and rationing authority, not a bank — had no formal mandate to issue currency, which makes these notes legally improvised instruments rather than official emissions.
The Gari Monerris catalogue reference is incomplete, suggesting the piece was recorded but not fully classified. Survival rates for village-level Civil War scrip are wildly uneven; many issues are known from a handful of examples, and some from only one.