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25 Céntimos Valenzuela de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valenzuela de Calatrava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VALENZUELA DE CALATRAVA Vale por 25 céntimos Julio, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Valenzuela de Calatrava Valid for 25 Centimos July, 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain pink card stock surface with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Valenzuela de Calatrava is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla–La Mancha, and like hundreds of similarly obscure Spanish towns it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely by 1937. These municipal emissions — collectively known as billetes locales or moneda de cartón — were produced under no central oversight, which means paper quality, printing method, and surviving quantities vary dramatically even within a single series.
The thick card stock used here was a common local workaround when proper banknote paper was unavailable.