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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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| Reverse description | Plain light paper reverse bearing a single handwritten manuscript signature in dark ink, overlaid by a circular official rubber stamp impression in violet ink, the text of which runs around the circumference of the stamp and relates to the issuing municipal authority. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet rubber stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén applied to the reverse, accompanied by a manuscript signature. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — *billetes de necesidad* — issued by Spanish municipal councils during the Civil War, when Republican-zone towns faced an acute shortage of fractional coinage. The Consejo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén, a small olive-growing village in the sierra north of Jaén city, issued these 25 céntimos notes to keep local commerce functional. The official stamp served as the primary authentication mechanism, a workaround adopted across Andalusia when formal banking infrastructure had collapsed.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, which typically indicates a note known from very few surviving examples or one catalogued after the main Gari survey was compiled.