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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mislata |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed on yellow paper in dark brown letterpress, the obverse is framed by a repeating decorative border of small squares along the full perimeter. The issuer's title 'Consejo Municipal de Mislata' appears in large display type at upper left, with the voucher number field to the upper right. The central text block sets out the legal terms of the emergency scrip in justified typography, flanked by a circular official ink stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Mislata at lower left; the denomination 'Vale por 25 céntimos' is set within a ruled rectangular cartouche at centre-lower, flanked by solid diamond ornaments, with three signature lines below for El Presidente, El Interventor, and El Depositario, and an expiry notice at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Mislata VALE CANJEABLE a la vista para el solo efecto de facilitar el cambio comercial intramunicipal, avalado por el Consejo y de aceptación obligatoria por el Comercio de esta. Mislata 24 de Julio de 1937. Vale por 25 céntimos CADUCA EL DIA 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Mislata Exchangeable Voucher at sight for the sole purpose of facilitating intra-municipal commercial exchange, endorsed by the Council and mandatory acceptance by its Commerce. Mislata July 24, 1937. Voucher for 25 Centimos Expires on November 30, 1937.) |
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Mislata is a small municipality immediately west of Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. Republican authorities had effectively stripped low-denomination coins from the economy, and municipal consells across the Valencia region scrambled to fill the gap with locally printed paper. Gráficas Albarracín, a Valencian commercial printer, produced notes for several of these municipal issues simultaneously.
The Turró and Gari catalogues both list this series, reflecting how systematically scholars have had to reconstruct what was essentially improvised wartime monetary policy at the parish level.