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25 Céntimos Llombay
| Issuer | Comunidad Obrera de Llombay (C.N.T. - A.I.T.) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed entirely in black letterpress, with the issuer name 'Comunidad Obrera - Llombay' set in bold type at the top, underlined by a ruled horizontal line. The anarcho-syndicalist affiliations 'C. N. T.' and 'A. I. T.' are printed on either side of the centre field, with a faint red control stamp partially visible as an underprint. The denomination legend 'Vale por 25 céntimes' is set in bold type at the foot, with the numeral '25' in a larger display face. |
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| Obverse lettering | Comunidad Obrera - Llombay C. N. T. A. I. T. Vale por 25 céntimes (Translation: Working Community - Llombay C. N. T. A. I. T. Voucher for 25 Centimos) |
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Llombay is a small municipality in Valencia province, and this 25 céntimos piece is one of dozens of hyper-local emergency issues that appeared across Republican-held Spain after the July 1936 military uprising collapsed normal banking and drained metallic coin from circulation almost overnight. The issuing body — the CNT-affiliated Comunidad Obrera — effectively administered the local economy under anarcho-syndicalist collectivization, meaning this note functioned within a parallel structure that rejected both the Republican central government's authority and conventional monetary hierarchy.
At this format, these were produced under improvised conditions and survive poorly. The Garicoin/Gari Monumenta reference corpus documents hundreds of such Valencian local issues, most in tiny print runs.