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25 Céntimos Chelva
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Chelva |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black ink on cream paper stock, enclosed within a plain geometric rectangular border. An oval coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left of the text block, with the denomination, issuer name, and payment obligation set in varying typefaces in a functional, utilitarian layout. No pictorial vignette appears beyond the armorial device, consistent with the austere production methods of Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely blank reverse on aged cream paper stock, consistent with the utilitarian production standards of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency, with no printed design, text, or security elements. |
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Chelva is a small municipality in the Valencia interior, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local issues, known collectively as moneda local de necesidad, were authorized under Republican decree but produced under wildly varying conditions, often on whatever paper stock the town hall had available.
Chelva's issues are documented in both the Gari and Turró catalogues, but surviving examples in any condition are infrequently offered — small-town Valencian fractional notes were rarely preserved once the Nationalist advance made them worthless in early 1939.