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25 Céntimos Polopos
| Issuer | Delegación de Abastos de Polopos |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | DELEGACIÓN DE ABASTOS POLOPOS Vale por 25 céntimos (Translation: Supply Delegation Polopos Voucher for 25 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL POLOPOS (GRANADA) |
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Polopos is a small municipality in the Alpujarra region of Granada province. Notes like this — issued by a local supply delegation rather than a bank or municipal council — emerged during the Spanish Civil War when the breakdown of normal commerce, hoarding of metallic coinage, and Republican zone supply administration created a vacuum that local bodies filled with improvised paper. The Delegación de Abastos was a wartime rationing and supply authority, not a financial institution, which makes its issuance of fractional currency an act of administrative necessity rather than monetary policy.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, suggesting this piece was either uncatalogued at time of publication or recorded without full attribution.