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25 Pesetas replica
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Replica banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Juan de Herrera (1530–1597), Spanish architect and mathematician, at centre-left, with an architectural vignette of the Patio de los Evangelistas of El Escorial Monastery to the right. Denomination inscriptions and issuer text frame the composition, with guilloche underprint throughout. |
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| Reverse description | The Francoist coat of arms of Spain occupies the left panel, with the imperial eagle, quartered shield, and columns of Hercules bearing the motto PLUS ULTRA. The central field carries an elaborate multicolour guilloche rosette with the numeral 25 at its centre, flanked by ornate scrollwork. Denomination lettering appears in banners above and below the guilloche, with the issuer name at lower left. |
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The 1940 Banco de España 25 Pesetas series was issued during the early Francoist period, when Spain's monetary infrastructure was being rebuilt after the Civil War had devastated both the economy and the country's printing capacity. The Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre in Madrid, which had been disrupted during the conflict, resumed full production under the new regime — this series was among the first substantial emissions from a stabilized domestic press.
This example is catalogued as a replica. The original P#107 notes are themselves not rare, which makes the existence of a replica copy — rather than a forgery intended to deceive — the more interesting question here.