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25 Céntimos Rioja
| Issuer | Municipality of Rioja (Almería) |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1245-A |
| Obverse description | Printed in blue-green ink on plain cream paper, the note is framed by a multi-layered ornamental border composed of scrollwork, foliate motifs, and dotted corner blocks in a typographic letterpress style. The issuing legend appears at the top within the frame, with the denomination value in large bold numerals at centre, flanked on each side by small decorative key-like vignettes within a subsidiary rectangular frame. Below the denomination panel, a validity clause and serial number appear in smaller type, with the printer's imprint beneath the outer border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Moneda Comercial de Rioja 25 céntimos No será válido sin la firma y sello TIP. DIARIO DE ALMERIA |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — known in Spain as billetes de necesidad — issued by municipalities during the Civil War years when Republican-held territories suffered acute coin shortages. The central government's inability to maintain small-change supply forced local authorities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to print their own fractional scrip. Rioja, a minor agricultural municipality in the Almería interior, was among them.
The Tipografía Diario de Almería handled a number of these local commissions, which accounts for the shared production quality across several Almería-province issues catalogued in Gari Mon's series.