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25 Céntimos Ulea

Issuer Municipio de Ulea
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Size 77 × 54 mm
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Obverse description Plain paper ground with a double-rule rectangular border in green letterpress. The issuer's name 'MUNICIPIO DE ULEA' and subtitle 'CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL' appear in the upper portion, followed by the denomination 'VALE por 25 céntimos' in larger type at centre. A manuscript signature of the Interventor appears in red ink below the denomination line, with the guarantee legend printed along the lower margin. Series letter and serial number are hand-inscribed in the upper corners.
Obverse lettering MUNICIPIO DE ULEA CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL VALE por 25 céntimos El Interventor, GARANTIZADO CON BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA
(Translation: Municipality of Ulea Local circulation Voucher for 25 Centimos Guaranteed with banknotes from the Bank of Spain.)
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Ulea is a small municipality in the Ricote Valley of Murcia — a town so minor that its wartime emergency scrip rarely appears in the trade. Like hundreds of Spanish municipalities, Ulea issued fractional céntimos notes during the Civil War to replace coinage that had vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936, hoarded by a public that trusted metal over paper and ideology alike.

Gari Mon catalogues this as a single known type, which suggests very limited original production. Provincial Spanish Civil War municipales from villages of this size were typically printed locally on whatever stock was available, often in runs of a few hundred.

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