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25 Céntimos Siles
| Issuer | Comisión de Abastos de Siles |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper by letterpress in dark brown-black ink, the note is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette. The text is arranged in four centred lines within a double-rule rectangular border with reinforced corner brackets: the issuing authority in ornate display lettering at top, the locality name in bold capitals at centre, the bearer clause in spaced capitals below, and the denomination numeral and word in large bold type at foot. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet rubber stamp applied to the reverse, bearing the legend of the Comisión de Abastos de Siles around its circumference with a central decorative rosette, serving as an authenticating control mark. |
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Siles is a small municipality in the Sierra de Segura, Jaén province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, its Comisión de Abastos — a local supply committee — issued fractional paper currency during the Civil War to address the acute shortage of small change that gripped the economy from 1936 onward. The silver and copper coins that previously handled everyday transactions had vanished from circulation almost overnight, hoarded or melted.
These hyper-local emergency emissions were never coordinated by any central authority. The validation stamp was the only mechanism distinguishing legal tender from blank paper.