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0.25 Pesetas Gorafe
| Issuer | Caja Municipal de Gorafe |
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| Year | |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned note printed in black letterpress on buff paper, with the issuer's name in bold serif type across the upper portion, followed by the bearer clause in smaller roman type. The face value '0'25' is set in large bold numerals within a single-rule rectangular frame at centre. A handwritten serial number appears at top right preceded by 'Núm.', with the title 'El Depositario' and a manuscript signature below the value panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | Núm. La Caja Municipal de Gorafe pagará al portador del presente 0´25 El Depositario, (Translation: The Municipal Fund of Gorafe will pay the bearer of the present 0.25 / The Depositary,) |
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Gorafe is a small municipality in the province of Granada, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War — the Republican government's decree of 1937 authorizing local bodies to produce small-denomination notes was the direct cause of this proliferation. The Caja Municipal issues from villages like Gorafe are among the hardest to trace precisely because production was entirely local, often improvised, and records were rarely kept or were destroyed afterward.
The absent Gari-Montserrat reference number suggests this piece either postdates the main catalog sweep or was unknown to the compilers at the time of publication.