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25 Céntimos Yecla
| Issuer | Yecla, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Coat of arms of Yecla at left, with denomination and date of issue lettered at centre-right. The text of the promissory obligation arcs around the upper and lower borders in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic at left, rendered in dark brown intaglio-style engraving on a green underprint, flanked by the motto PLUS ULTRA on scroll banners. To the right, the numeral '25' within a circular guilloche vignette, with 'CENTIMOS' inscribed along the lower arc. Issuer and republic legends run along the top and bottom borders. |
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Yecla is a small inland municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when coin shortages made small transactions nearly impossible. The Republican government had authorized local authorities to fill the gap, producing a patchwork of emergency paper across loyalist Spain — some printed professionally, most produced with whatever equipment was locally available.
The Gari Montaña cataloguing for this piece suggests a relatively obscure emission with limited surviving documentation on the issuing authority's exact administrative structure at the time.