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25 Pesetas Tarancón
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Tarancón (Municipality of Tarancón) |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on red paper, the obverse is set within a black letterpress border composed of a continuous wavy-line frame with a scalloped inner edge. The issuer's name 'Ayuntamiento de Tarancón' appears at the top in bold serif type, separated from the central denomination legend 'Vale por 25 pesetas' by a short rule. Below, a block of justified text sets out the conditions of validity dated 24 July 1936, with the printer's imprint 'Imprenta - Casa Rabadán.- Tarancón' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain red paper reverse, bearing a single circular municipal validation stamp applied in violet ink to the left-centre, as stipulated by the conditions printed on the obverse. No other design elements or printed legends are present. |
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One of hundreds of local emergency emissions that flooded Republican-held Spain in the summer and autumn of 1936, as the collapse of normal banking channels left municipal governments scrambling to keep commerce moving. Tarancón, a small Castilla-La Mancha town on the Madrid–Valencia road, issued its own notes through the local print shop — Casa Rabadán — rather than wait for any centralized solution that was slow in coming.
The sole security feature was an official municipal stamp, which offered almost no protection against copying but was the practical limit of what a town press could manage under wartime conditions.