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25 Céntimos Quesada
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Quesada |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on pink paper, the note is framed by a dotted border and headed by the issuer designation 'El Consejo Municipal / QUESADA (Jaén)', separated from the body by a bold horizontal rule. The denomination '25 CENTIMOS' is set in large bold type at the centre, preceded by the payment promise 'Pagará al portador'. A serial number and the confirmatory legend 'Son 25 cts.' occupy the lower portion of the design. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted pink paper, traversed by evenly spaced horizontal dotted lines across its surface, with no additional vignette or text elements forming part of the original design. |
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Quesada is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional paper during the Civil War after the Republic's central government failed to keep small change in circulation. These locally printed consejo municipal notes were stopgap instruments, authorized under a 1936 decree that effectively deputized town councils as emergency issuers. Production was typically handled by whatever printer — or even typewriter and rubber stamp — was available locally.
Survival is erratic. Small-denomination municipal issues from rural Andalusia were discarded rather than saved once the war resolved the currency question one way or another.