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25 Céntimos Anna
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Anna |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 89 × 39 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR 25 CTS. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - ANNA VALE POR 25 CTS. QUE ABONARÁ AL PORTADOR EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ANNA, 28 DE JUNIO 1937 (Translation: Value for 25 Centimos Municipal Council - Anna Value for 25 Centimos that the Municipal Council will pay to the bearer Anna, June 28, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Cream ground without border, bearing a central underprint composed of five interlocking lobed diamond shapes formed entirely from a regular dotted matrix. The denomination 25 CTS. is printed in large bold letterpress numerals and letters in reserve (unprinted) against the dark dotted underprint, centred within the composite diamond design. |
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Anna is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of similar councils across Republican Spain in 1937, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the Civil War disrupted coin supply almost entirely. The hoarding and melting of copper and silver coinage left local economies effectively paralyzed for small transactions, and municipal councils — with no formal banking infrastructure — stepped in with hand-stamped or simply printed emergency notes backed by nothing more than local trust.
The Turró and Gari Mon references place this among the better-documented examples of Valencia's municipal issues, though survivorship for Anna specifically is thin.