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25 Céntimos Vara de Rey
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Vara de Rey (Municipality of Vara de Rey) |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in black on light blue card stock, the obverse is a typeset design enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The issuing authority name appears in bold uppercase letterpress at the top, separated from the central denomination text by a small ornamental rule; a handwritten serial number preceded by "Núm." appears in the upper right corner outside the inner frame. A violet municipal stamp impression is visible at the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same light blue card stock as the obverse, with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Vara de Rey is a small municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castile–La Mancha. This 25 céntimos note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War–era local emergency currency — cartones and billetes de necesidad — issued by Republican municipalities from 1936 onward when metallic coin vanished almost entirely from circulation, hoarded or melted down almost overnight after July 1936.
The Gari Montllor catalogue documents thousands of these issues, many from towns with populations in the low hundreds. Vara de Rey was among them. Blue-tinted card stock was a common substrate choice at this scale, where proper banknote paper was simply unavailable.