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25 Céntimos San Miguel de Salinas
| Issuer | San Miguel de Salinas, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 93 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Violet note printed in letterpress, enclosed within a bold rectangular border composed of wide rules and repeating square geometric ornaments. The central field carries the council's name and denomination in plain serif type, with the date of the authorising resolution set in a smaller line below. |
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| Reverse description | Violet note printed in letterpress, sharing the same bold rectangular border of wide rules and repeating square geometric ornaments as the obverse. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned at upper centre, with the denomination numeral below. |
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San Miguel de Salinas is a small municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War it issued emergency small-change notes — *billetes de necesidad* — to address the acute shortage of fractional coinage after metallic currency was hoarded or melted down. The Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local authorities to produce their own change-making paper opened the door to an enormous variety of improvised municipal issues, many printed with whatever equipment the town hall had on hand.
Gari Mon catalogues this as a single known type for the municipality, suggesting the issue was limited in scope and duration.