25 Céntimos Ador

Ador is a small municipality in the comarca of La Safor, Valencia. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of Valencian villages issued their own emergency fractional currency — locally known as cartones or vales — when Republican Spain ran short of small-denomination coinage after 1936. Ador's 25 céntimos falls squarely into this phenomenon, issued by the municipal supply council rather than a banking authority.

These village-level emissions were rarely printed in large quantities, and survival rates are uneven — many were redeemed and pulped, others simply lost. The issuing body, the Consejería de Abastecimientos, handled rationing and provisioning duties, which is why such councils ended up as de facto monetary authorities in their communities.