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25 Céntimos Benifairó de les Valls, Cooperativa Obrera de Consumo Local `Pablo Iglesias`
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera de Consumo Local `Pablo Iglesias`, Benifairó de les Valls (Province of Valencia) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Utilitarian cream card stock printed entirely in black letterpress. The full issuer name is set in three lines across the upper half, with BENIFAIRÓ DE LES VALLS underscored by a horizontal rule; the denomination 25 céntimos is centred immediately below, separated by a short dash from the serial number printed in a larger typeface at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA OBRERA DE CONSUMO LOCAL "PABLO IGLESIAS" BENIFAIRÓ DE LES VALLS 25 céntimos Nº ______ (Translation: Local Consumer Workers' Cooperative "Pablo Iglesias" Benifairó de les Valls 25 Centimos) |
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Issued by a workers' consumer cooperative in a small Valencian municipality during the Spanish Civil War, this note belongs to the vast ecosystem of locally-issued emergency fractional currency — "moneda de necesidad" — that proliferated after July 1936, when the banking system fragmented and coin hoarding stripped communities of small change almost overnight. The cooperative's namesake, Pablo Iglesias Posse, was the founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and the UGT, which makes the dedication pointed rather than incidental for a workers' collective.
Gari Mon #300-A is among the more obscure Valencian provincial emissions, and surviving examples are rarely encountered in trade.