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25 Céntimos Sorbas
| Issuer | Sorbas, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on plain paper stock, with a geometric perimeter frame incorporating floral and geometric ornamental motifs as underprint. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in the central field. Printer's imprint reads IMP. HARO - VERA at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse, unprinted, consistent with the austere production standards of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency issued in the province of Almería, Andalusia. |
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Sorbas is a small municipality in Almería, perched above a gypsum karst landscape about 40 kilometres inland. During the Spanish Civil War, Republican-controlled towns across Spain issued their own emergency fractional currency — *vales* and *cartones* — to compensate for the catastrophic disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. Silver and copper were hoarded, melted, or simply stopped moving the moment the war began in July 1936.
Imp. Haro in Vera printed for several Almerian municipalities during this period, which accounts for a shared aesthetic across local issues from the province. Sorbas itself had a population of only a few thousand, so total print runs for these municipal emissions were correspondingly small.