25 Céntimos Polopos

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.