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25 Céntimos San Clemente
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de San Clemente |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on light pink card stock in dark green ink, with a single-line rectangular perimeter border. The upper portion carries the issuing authority inscription in bold capitals, while the lower half is divided into two panels: the left panel contains a hand-stamped serial number flanked above and below by a row of stylised triangular and scalloped ornamental devices, and the right panel bears the promise-to-pay legend above the large numeral denomination and its abbreviated unit. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted reverse on light pink card stock, with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. The surface shows the natural texture of the thick card substrate. |
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San Clemente is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla-La Mancha, and this 25 céntimos piece belongs to the wave of emergency fractional currency — moneda local — that Spanish towns were forced to produce during the Civil War after the Republic's metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936. Hoarding and melting consumed the small-denomination coins, and hundreds of ayuntamientos filled the gap with improvised card or paper issues, most authorized locally and never formally sanctioned by Madrid.
The Garicano-Moragas catalog reference places this within a well-documented but still incompletely surveyed series. Small-town issues like this one frequently survive in very limited numbers — production runs were modest, redemption was erratic, and many were simply discarded once the war ended.