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25 Céntimos Alginet

Issuer Comité de Enlace Ejecutivo C.N.T. - U.G.T. Alginet
Year 1937
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse description Plain cream paper stock with typewritten text in black to the left, accompanied by a large oval violet ink stamp of the issuing authority applied to the right-centre. The stamp bears the legend of the Comité de Enlace Ejecutivo C.N.T. - U.G.T. around its perimeter, with the town name ALGINET at the base and two small stars as separators. Vertical dashed guide lines are visible across the note, characteristic of wartime emergency voucher production.
Obverse lettering COMITÉ DE ENLACE EJECUTIVO C. N. T. U. G. T. ALGINET Vale por VEINTICINCO céntimos de géneros de comer, beber o arder. Alginet.
(Translation: Executive Liaison Committee Alginet Voucher for Twenty-five Centimos of things to eat, drink or burn. Alginet.)
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Alginet is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, it briefly became its own monetary authority out of necessity. The Comité de Enlace Ejecutivo was a joint executive committee of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT and the socialist UGT — an uneasy but functional wartime alliance between rival labor federations that controlled much of local economic life in Republican territory during 1937.

These municipal emergency issues were produced locally with whatever printing resources were available, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and impression consistency across surviving examples. The Gari Montaña catalog remains the primary reference for Valencian community issues of this type.

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