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25 Céntimos Ayora
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ayora |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 96 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain paper, with geometric border decorations framing the text field. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left. All text is in a formal sans-serif typeface, with the denomination and issuing authority set in larger display type. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL AYORA Junio 1937 25 CENTIMOS PAPEL MONEDA DE VALOR EXCLUSIVAMENTE LOCAL Art. Grá. Leovigildo Martínez. AYORA (Translation: Municipal Council Ayora June 1937 25 Centimos Paper money of exclusively local value) |
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Ayora is a small inland municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council stepped in to fill a chronic shortage of small change after metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. These emergency fractional notes — known collectively as papel moneda local — were produced by whatever printing resources existed locally. In Ayora's case, that meant a single local print shop, Leovigildo Martínez, turning out fractional currency for a municipality of a few thousand people.
The dual catalog references under Turró suggest at least two recognized varieties within the series.