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25 Céntimos Terrinches
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Terrinches |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with all text printed in dark ink by letterpress. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE TERRINCHES' is set in spaced serif capitals across the upper portion, separated from the denomination line by a short horizontal rule. The value statement 'Vale por 25 cts.' appears in a larger, bolder typeface in the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, leaving the plain paper stock entirely blank, consistent with the austere emergency issue character of Spanish Civil War municipal vouchers. |
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Terrinches is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile–La Mancha. This 25 céntimos note was issued by the local municipal council during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone experienced a severe shortage of fractional coinage — silver and copper had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities, many with populations under a thousand, printed their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving.
Terrinches had fewer than 600 inhabitants at the time. That a council this small produced catalogued emergency currency speaks to how complete the coin shortage was.