Catalog
25 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Black and violet intaglio print with red serial numbers. A panoramic landscape vignette presents the village of Pola de Somiedo in Oviedo (Asturias), framed by a backdrop of Cantabrian mountain scenery. The composition is enclosed by floral and geometric guilloche border ornaments, with the denomination and issuer's name lettered within the design. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE ESPAÑA 25 PESETAS POLA DE SOMIEDO (OVIEDO) 25 (Translation: Bank of Spain 25 Pesetas) |
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Spain's postwar austerity period meant the Banco de España was issuing denominations that had been largely theoretical during the Civil War years — the 25 peseta note returned to circulation as the Franco regime worked to stabilize a currency badly damaged by wartime monetary chaos and the parallel Republican issues that had complicated the money supply through the early 1940s.
The López Sánchez-Toda brothers — José Luis on the obverse plates, Alfonso on the reverse — were staff engravers at the FNMT, and their dual credit on a single note is unusual enough to be worth noting. Watermark-only security was thin for the period, but Spain's relative isolation under autarky made sophisticated counterfeiting logistically difficult.