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25 Céntimos Ulea
| Issuer | Municipio de Ulea |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground enclosed by a typeset geometric border of repeating tooth-and-bracket motifs at all four sides, with corner ornaments. The issuer's name MUNICIPIO DE ULEA and the legend CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL appear in bold letterpress type in the upper half, beneath which the denomination Vale por 25 céntimos is set in large display type. A handwritten signature of El Interventor appears in the centre, and the guarantee clause Garantizado con billetes del Banco de España is printed at the lower left. Series letter and serial number are handwritten in the upper margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | SECRETARIA INTERVENCION DEL AYUNTAMIENTO |
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Ulea is a small municipality in the Segura river valley of Murcia, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it issued emergency fractional notes during the Civil War period when coinage essentially vanished from everyday commerce. These local municipal issues — known collectively as papel moneda local — were produced under desperate circumstances, often on whatever paper was available, with printing quality ranging from rudimentary to barely legible.
The Gari Mon catalogue is the standard reference for these issues, but survival rates for Ulea's notes are poorly documented, and the actual emission quantity is unknown.