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25 Céntimos Rioja
| Issuer | Municipality of Rioja (Almería) |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Moneda Comercial de Rioja 25 céntimos No será válido sin la firma y sello TIP. DIARIO DE ALMERIA |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain cream paper stock with no text, imagery, or decorative elements. |
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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.