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25 Céntimos Aras de Alpuente
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Aras de Alpuente |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The large numeral '25' occupies the left half of the note in bold block type, while the right half carries the issuer name 'Consejo Municipal de Aras de Alpuente' arranged in three lines separated by short rules, with the denomination 'céntimos' set in bold italic type at the lower right, underlined by a double rule. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse on aged cream card stock, validated by a circular violet municipal dry-stamp applied to the left, its legend reading around the circumference in Spanish, accompanied by two handwritten manuscript signatures in black ink across the centre of the note. |
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Aras de Alpuente is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of small-change coinage from circulation. Republican-zone hoarding and the breakdown of normal supply chains hit rural communities especially hard. The heavier card stock used here was a practical choice — thin paper didn't survive daily handling in village commerce, and local printers worked with whatever was available.
The Turró and Gari catalogues between them document dozens of Valencian municipal issues from this period, but Aras de Alpuente's output remains among the more obscure, with the official stamp serving as the primary authentication against forgery.