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25 Céntimos Utiel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Utiel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The face of the note is bordered by a decorative vine motif with bunches of grapes encircling the perimeter, reflecting the wine-producing character of the Utiel region. The central vignette incorporates the face value within the mouth of a stylized animal figure, rendered in a folk-art letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. The issuing authority legend arcs across the note in bold capital letters. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on a yellow ground with an ornate central vignette of the Coat of Arms of Utiel, set within a circular cartouche and flanked symmetrically by two cherubic angels holding drapery and torches in a baroque decorative arrangement. The denomination 25 appears in circular roundels at lower left and right, with the serial number hand-stamped in red at centre. Series letter A is printed in red at upper right, and the manuscript signatures of El Presidente and El Depositario appear at the bottom. |
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Utiel is a small wine-producing town in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council was forced to produce its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply effectively collapsed after 1936. The hoarding of metal coinage — copper included — was immediate and widespread once the war began, leaving local commerce without any small change at all.
Municipal issues at this denomination were printed under improvised conditions and typically circulated only within the issuing town's boundaries. Survival rates vary considerably by municipality; Utiel's output was small enough that even circulated examples are not routinely encountered.