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25 Céntimos Totana
| Issuer | Totana, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red ink, the reverse presents a decorative border combining floral and geometric motifs. A local municipal coat of arms occupies the center, set within floral ornamental designs and flanked by two cherub vignettes. The denomination is stated in abbreviated form. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Cts. (Translation: 25 Centimos) |
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Totana is a small agricultural municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. These municipal emergency notes were produced under wildly inconsistent conditions — some by local printers, some by hand-stamped cardboard — and the Totana issues are among the more obscure entries in the Gari Monedas catalog, with survival rates that reflect both limited original production and the chaos of the postwar period.
The Gari Mon#1479-E reference places this within a numbered subseries, suggesting variant signatories or overprint differences within the same emission.