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25 Céntimos Alfafara
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alfafara |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#103-A |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, otherwise blank, hand-validated with an oval violet ink municipal stamp reading 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' and 'ALFAFARA' around the perimeter with a five-pointed star, the stamp applied off-centre with impression text inverted relative to the note orientation. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Alfafara is a small municipality in the Valencian interior — population well under a thousand even today — and its wartime paper issues belong to the vast ecosystem of Republican emergency fractional currency that proliferated across Spain from 1936 onward. When the Civil War disrupted the coin supply, hundreds of local councils printed their own substitutes. Most circulated only within their own village boundaries, redeemable in theory, worthless in practice once the issuing authority collapsed or changed hands.
The Gari Monerris catalogue documents these Valencian municipals exhaustively, and Alfafara's issues are among the more obscure entries — a reflection of the town's size, not any particular printing distinction.