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25 Céntimos Albalat de Taronchers
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albalat de Taronchers |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 57 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper with black letterpress text arranged centrally in three tiers: the issuing authority name in bold capitals at top, the locality name in a mixed-case serif typeface at centre, and the denomination '25 Cèntimos' in large bold type at foot. The design is entirely typographic with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white paper bearing a single hand-applied oval blue ink municipal stamp centred on the field, enclosing a heraldic town coat of arms; the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' arcs across the upper interior of the oval and 'ALBALAT DE TARONCHERS' along the lower arc, with small star ornaments flanking the text. |
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Albalat de Taronchers is a small Valencian municipality that, like hundreds of other Republican-controlled towns during the Spanish Civil War, resorted to issuing its own emergency paper fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of late 1936 effectively acknowledged that the central banking system could no longer supply adequate small-denomination coinage. These municipal notes — known collectively as moneda local de necesidad — were theoretically backed by local authority but practically backed by nothing more than community trust and the assumption the war would end favorably.
The near-square format and official stamp were typical stopgap measures. Turró's catalogue documents significant variation in stamp placement across surviving examples of the 43 series.