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0.25 Pesetas Cuatretondeta
| Issuer | Alcaldía de Cuatretondeta (Municipality of Cuatretondeta) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 80 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Alcaldía de Cuatretondeta La Depositaría de esta Alcaldía satisfará al portador 0`25 pesetas (Translation: Mayoralty of Cuatretondeta The depository of this Mayoralty will satisfy the bearer 0.25 Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse bearing a handwritten manuscript signature in black ink at centre-right, accompanied by a faint oval official municipality dry stamp impression at left, the text of which is only partially legible due to light inking. |
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Cuatretondeta is a village in the Comtat region of Valencia with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities caught between a collapsed banking system and the Nationalist blockade of Republican-held territory, the local alcaldía issued its own fractional emergency notes in 1937 — vales de necesidad — to substitute for the hoarded and disappeared small coinage that had vanished almost entirely from circulation by mid-war.
The Gari Monerris catalogue documents these Valencian municipal emissions with reasonable completeness, and the 578-A designation places this among the smaller, lower-denomination issues that saw hard daily use and rarely survived intact.