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25 Céntimos Puzol

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Puzol
Year 1937
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse description Plain cream card stock printed in dark blue ink throughout. A large numeral '25' occupies the left half of the note, while the issuer inscription 'Consejo Municipal / PUZOL' is set in the upper right in bold letterpress type. A handwritten serial number appears in the centre right, flanked above and below by horizontal rules, with the denomination word 'céntimos' in bold type at the lower right, itself underlined by a double rule.
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Reverse description Unprinted cream card stock bearing a single handwritten signature across the upper centre, with a rubber-stamp impression of the letters 'C.N.T.' in blue ink at the centre, and an additional handwritten inscription towards the lower portion. The reverse carries no printed design elements.
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Puzol is a small municipality north of Valencia, and like hundreds of Valencian towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone small change effectively collapsed. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure of its own — these local emergency notes (known collectively as *billetes de necesidad*) were typically produced by whatever commercial printer was available regionally, and quality varied enormously between issues.

The Turró and Gari catalogues both list this piece, though surviving examples are uncommon enough that auction appearances remain infrequent. At under 3,000 square millimeters, this is among the smaller physical formats produced during the Spanish Republican municipal issues.

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