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25 Céntimos Valdepeñas de Jaén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain off-white card stock with text printed in black letterpress. The issuing authority title 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears in large bold capitals across the upper portion, followed by 'de Valdepeñas de Jaén' in a smaller italic face. A small circular floral vignette is centred between the locality name and the denomination statement 'Vale 25 céntimos', which is set in a large mixed-serif typeface across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white card stock, otherwise blank save for a large oval rubber stamp in pink-red ink applied to the centre, bearing a circular legend referencing the issuing municipality, with a bold ink manuscript signature overlaid across the stamp in dark blue-black ink. |
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Valdepeñas de Jaén is a small municipality in the Sierra Mágica foothills of Jaén province, and this 25 céntimos piece belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency paper — local scrip authorized by Republican-controlled town councils when fractional coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Nationalist advance disrupted coin supply chains, hoarding stripped what remained, and hundreds of ayuntamientos and consejos municipales were left to improvise their own fiduciary substitutes.
The thick card stock construction is typical of inland Andalusian issues, where access to proper banknote paper was limited and local printers worked with whatever commercial stock was available.