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25 Céntimos Quintana de la Serena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Quintana de la Serena |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL QUINTANA DE LA SERENA Pagará al portador VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS El Presidente 25 CTS. Año 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Quintana de la Serena Will pay the bearer Twenty-five Centimos The President 25 Centimos Year 1937) |
| Reverse description | Reverse printed on the same pink paper, entirely unprinted and devoid of any text or design elements. |
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Quintana de la Serena is a small agricultural municipality in the Badajoz province of Extremadura, and this 25 céntimos note is one of hundreds of locally-issued emergency pieces that flooded Republican-held Spain in 1937 as the Civil War caused a catastrophic shortage of small coinage. The Consejo Municipal — the locally-constituted republican governing body — issued fractional paper out of bare necessity, not institutional ambition.
Badajoz province had already seen extreme violence by mid-1936. That this council was still functioning and issuing currency in 1937 places the note firmly within the Republican zone's fragile administrative continuity during the war's middle period.