25 Céntimos Alcira

Alcira's municipal council issued this note — along with the rest of its small-change emergency series — because the Spanish Civil War had effectively killed the circulation of metal coinage by 1937. Copper and silver were being hoarded or diverted to the war effort, and minor transactions across Republican-held Valencia ground to a halt without local substitutes. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities printed their own soluciones, and Alcira was one of dozens in the Valencian region to do so.

The Turró and Gari catalogues diverge slightly on classification details for this series, reflecting the difficulty of documenting ephemeral wartime printing done under pressure with whatever materials were locally available.