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15 Céntimos Álora
| Issuer | Álora, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR quince centimos ALORA (Translation: Voucher for Fifteen Centimos Álora) |
| Reverse description | Plain amber-orange card stock with no printed design or text in the central field. Faint impressions of the dashed-rule borders from the obverse are barely discernible at the upper and lower edges, a characteristic of the thin card stock used for this wartime emergency issue. |
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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.