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25 Céntimos Alfara dels Ports
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alfara dels Ports (Municipality of Alfara dels Ports) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark ink on cream paper within a single-rule border, with a perimeter vignette of leafy floral branches forming a decorative frame. Denomination counters reading '25 CÈNTIMS' appear in circular cartouches at lower left and upper right. The central field carries the issuing authority legend in large letterpress type above a bearer clause and issue date, with two handwritten signatures in red ink below, captioned 'L'Alcalde' and 'El Secretari' respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CÈNTIMS Ajuntament d'ALFARA La Tresoreria de l'Ajuntament reconeix a favor del portador VINT-I-CINC cèntims Alfara 14 de Juliol del 1937 L'Alcalde El Secretari (Translation: 25 Centimos / City Council of ALFARA / The Treasury of the City Council recognizes in favor of the bearer / Twenty-five centimos / Alfara, 14 July 1937 / The Mayor The Secretary) |
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Alfara dels Ports is a small inland municipality in the comarca of Els Ports, Castelló — far from any major financial center. Like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 after small-denomination Republican coinage effectively disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted down. These local emissions were technically authorized under decrees issued by the Generalitat de Catalunya, though in practice the municipal councils acted with considerable autonomy in their designs and print runs.
The printer, Successors de la Gràfica de P. (E. C.) on Carrer Borrell in Barcelona, handled a substantial number of similar municipal commissions during this period. Turró 97 places this note within a well-documented but geographically obscure group.