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10 Céntimos Bétera
| Issuer | Bétera, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellowish card stock with all text applied by letterpress in black ink. The issuer legend "MONEDA TRABAJO / BÉTERA" is set in bold uppercase type across the upper half, with a row of four dots centred beneath. The denomination "10 céntimos" is printed in large bold type across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONEDA TRABAJO BÉTERA 10 céntimos (Translation: Work Currency Bétera 10 Centimos) |
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Bétera is a small municipality north of Valencia, and like hundreds of Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 when Republican-zone small change effectively ceased to exist. The central government's failure to supply low-denomination coinage forced local councils, unions, and cooperatives to paper over the gap themselves — legally, under a 1937 decree that authorized municipal issues but did little to standardize them.
The Turró and Gari catalogues both document this series, though surviving examples of the 10 céntimos value are notably scarcer than the higher denominations from the same municipality.