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15 Céntimos Álora

Issuer Álora, Municipality of
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Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Printed on amber-orange card stock in black letterpress throughout. The central field carries three lines of bold sans-serif text stating the denomination and issuing municipality, arranged in a symmetrical, centred layout. Narrow dashed-rule borders run horizontally across the full width of the note at both the upper and lower margins, framing the text field.
Obverse lettering VALE POR
quince centimos
ALORA
(Translation: Voucher for Fifteen Centimos Álora)
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Álora is a small municipality in Málaga province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency small change during the Civil War after metallic coin virtually disappeared from circulation in 1936. These local municipal issues — known collectively as cartones or billetes locales — were produced under improvised conditions, typically on whatever card or heavy paper stock was available, often printed or even handwritten and rubber-stamped locally rather than by any professional press.

The Gari Montllor reference is incomplete, which is not unusual for minor Andalusian municipalities where documentation remains fragmentary and surviving examples are genuinely rare.

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