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25 Céntimos San Carlos del Valle
| Issuer | San Carlos del Valle, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue ink on cream card stock, the note is dominated by a large oval border composed of repeating small circular and scroll ornaments forming a primitive guilloche frame. Within the oval, the issuing authority "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" and locality "San Carlos del Valle" appear in bold letterpress type above a short rule, with the denomination "25 cts." printed in a larger bold face below. The overall design is austere, consistent with wartime emergency production. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL San Carlos del Valle 25 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council San Carlos del Valle 25 Centimos) |
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San Carlos del Valle is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. Like hundreds of Spanish towns, it issued its own small-denomination emergency paper during the Civil War after Republican decree authorized local authorities to print fractional currency to offset the near-total disappearance of coinage from circulation by late 1936. The thick card stock used here was a practical response to that shortage — proper banknote paper was not available to rural municipalities.
Gari's cataloguing of this as Mon#1301-A suggests at least one variant exists, though documentation on individual municipal emissions from this region remains fragmentary.