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25 Céntimos Chert
| Issuer | Cooperativa Municipal de Consumo de Chert |
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| Year | 1937-1938 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Cooperativa Municipal de Consumo 25 céntimos CHERT (Translation: Municipal Consumer Cooperative 25 Centimos Chert) |
| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted cream card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements, the surface showing the natural texture of the thick paper used for this wartime emergency issue. |
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Chert — today spelled Xert — is a small municipality in the Baix Maestrat comarca of Castellón, and like hundreds of Spanish villages during 1936–1938, its local cooperative issued its own fractional paper currency after the Republic's small-change crisis made metal coins virtually unavailable. The Cooperativa Municipal de Consumo served as the issuing body largely because municipal governments in Republican-held territory often routed emergency currency through cooperatives or consumer collectives to sidestep the legal awkwardness of a town hall printing its own money.
The thick card stock was deliberate — small-denomination local notes in this format suffered brutal handling, and thinner paper rarely survived even weeks of pocket circulation.