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25 Céntimos Bétera
| Issuer | Bétera, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 45 × 31 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | MONEDA TRABAJO BÉTERA 25 céntimos (Translation: Work Currency Bétera 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain pink card stock, otherwise blank, bearing a hand-applied oval ink stamp of the Popular Executive Committee of Bétera, the text of which runs around the perimeter of the ellipse with the issuing authority's name legible across the centre. |
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Bétera is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican authorities failed to supply adequate small change. The Consell Municipal de Bétera authorized these cardboard issues in 1937 to keep everyday commerce functional — bread, transit, market stalls — when metallic coin had entirely vanished from circulation.
The Turró and Gari catalogues document considerable variation within Bétera's fractional series; cross-referencing both references is necessary before attributing any single example confidently to a specific emission.