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25 Céntimos Valdepeñas de Jaén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén Vale 25 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Valdepeñas de Jaén It`s worth 25 Centimos) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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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.