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25 Céntimos Pozuelo de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Pozuelo de Calatrava |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink card stock in dark ink using letterpress typography, the obverse bears the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL and POZUELO DE CALATRAVA in two separate lines, each underscored by a full-width rule. The central inscription Vale por 25 céntimos states the face value, while the date Julio, 1937 and a handstamped serial number appear along the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL POZUELO DE CALATRAVA Vale por 25 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Pozuelo de Calatrava Valid for 25 Centimos July, 1937) |
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Pozuelo de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency small-change notes — "moneda municipal" — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coinage from circulation. The Republican government's decree of 1937 authorized local bodies to produce these emergency issues, which is why the volume of distinct issuers from this period runs into the thousands.
The thick card stock was deliberate: lightweight paper tended to disintegrate quickly in heavy daily use, and these fractional values were handled constantly.