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10 Céntimos Paiporta
| Issuer | Paiporta, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned note printed in black letterpress on light cream paper, entirely typographic in composition with no vignette or decorative underprint. The issuing authority appears in two lines at the top, followed by the voucher legend and the denomination numeral and text in progressively larger type. The place name and date are set in a smaller typeface at the foot of the note. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Paiporta is a small municipality in the Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the summer of 1936, it responded to the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage by printing its own emergency paper. The Republican government's inability to maintain metallic circulation in the early months of the Civil War forced this improvisation at the most local level imaginable — village councils became, briefly, issuing authorities.
The Turró and Gari references place this firmly within the documented Valencian Community emergency issues. These notes almost never traveled far; most circulated within the issuing municipality and were redeemed — or simply abandoned — within months.