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25 Céntimos Quesa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Quesa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal DE QUESA 25 céntimos |
| Reverse description | Plain card stock reverse, largely blank, bearing a manuscript ink signature across the centre and the partial impression of an oval municipal validation stamp in violet ink, applied as an authentication mark. |
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Quesa is a small village in the interior of Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone commerce ground to a halt from coin hoarding and metal shortages. The Consejo Municipal series from 1937 was a purely local stop-gap — these notes circulated only within the village itself and were redeemable, in theory, once normal coinage returned.
The heavy card stock was a deliberate choice in many rural Valencian issues: thinner paper disintegrated too quickly in daily use. Survival rates for Quesa pieces are low, partly because the village's total population kept absolute quantities small to begin with.