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25 Céntimos Santa Pola
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santa Pola |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on plain paper stock, the face is enclosed within a multi-line Art Nouveau-style geometric border with interlaced corner ornaments. The issuer's name 'Consejo Municipal - Santapola' appears in bold letterpress across the upper portion, separated from the large denomination legend 'VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS' by a row of small triangular ornaments above and below. The lower section carries two handwritten manuscript signatures in ink, beneath the printed role titles 'El Alcalde' and 'El Interventor', with a faint architectural underprint visible at centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Twenty-five Centimos) |
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Santa Pola is a small coastal municipality in Alicante province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small change — a problem that plagued the Republican zone as coin hoarding intensified and the central government's supply lines faltered. These local "monedas municipales" were authorised under Republican decree but produced entirely at the municipality's own initiative, with quality varying wildly between townships.
The Gari Mon reference places this within the documented Alicante regional issues. Many comparable notes from small Valencian coastal municipalities were printed in very limited quantities and saw short active circulation before the Nationalist advance through the region in 1938-39 rendered them worthless.