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25 Céntimos Dolores
| Issuer | Comité de Abastos de Dolores |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in dark blue ink on plain paper stock, the face is enclosed within a decorative letterpress border composed of repeating spiral rosette and hatched corner ornaments. The issuing authority "Comité de Abastos" is set in bold serif capitals across the upper register, flanked by a small asterisk device at left, with the denomination "25 Cts." in large bold type at centre and the place name "DOLORES" in spaced capitals in the lower register, all separated by ruled horizontal lines. A vertical serial number is printed along the left inner margin, and the printer's imprint "mp. alonsó almoradí-Control U.G.T." appears below the border at foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain paper with no typeset design. A circular violet rubber stamp of the Comité de Abastos de Dolores is applied at centre-left, accompanied by a handwritten manuscript signature above a bold underline stroke, with the title "El Depositario" inscribed above the signature in ink. |
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One of hundreds of local emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936. Municipal and trade committees across the Valencian region issued paper fractional currency — often printed by whatever local press was available — to keep daily commerce moving. The Comité de Abastos, a supply committee, was a wartime administrative body rather than a bank or municipal treasury, which makes this issuer type particularly short-lived.
Imprenta Alonso in Almoradí, a small Vega Baja town roughly eight kilometres from Dolores, handled the print run. Few of these hyper-local issues survived the war in quantity.