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0.25 Pesetas Fonelas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fonelas |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper with all text in black letterpress. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal de Fonelas' is set in bold serif type across the upper portion and underlined by a full-width rule. Below the rule, the bearer clause 'pagará al portador' appears in a lighter typeface, with the denomination '0'25' rendered in large bold numerals at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on the same buff fibrous paper as the obverse, entirely unprinted save for a partial circular official stamp impression in violet ink at the lower left corner, with a handwritten notation in pencil visible at the upper right. |
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Fonelas is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional paper money during the Civil War after metallic coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936. These municipal emergency issues — known collectively as billetes de necesidad — were produced locally, often by the town's own administrative staff using whatever printing resources were at hand. Quality control was minimal and quantities were tiny.
The Gari Monerris catalogue reference is incomplete for this piece, which is itself informative: many Granadan municipal issues remain poorly documented, with surviving examples known only from single specimens.