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| Issuer | Alcaldía de Murla (Municipality of Murla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CÉNTIMOS Alcaldía de Murla Vale por Veinticinco Céntimos que abonará al portador la Caja Municipal de este Ayuntamiento Murla 23 de Marzo de 1937 (Translation: 25 Centimos Mayoralty of Murla It is worth Twenty five Centimos which will be paid to the bearer by the Municipal Fund of this Town Hall Murla, March 23, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed in dark green with a simple typeset design consisting of a dotted rectangular outer border with concentric dotted corner pieces and small circular ornaments at each corner. A central horizontal eye-shaped cartouche formed by dotted curves, flanked by small foliate ornaments at each tip, encloses the face value inscription '25 céntimos' in a serif display typeface. |
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Murla is a village in the Marina Alta comarca of Valencia with a population that barely reached 500 during the 1930s. That a settlement this small issued its own paper money is less surprising than it sounds — the Spanish Civil War collapsed the national coin supply almost immediately after July 1936, and hundreds of Valencian municipalities filled the gap with locally printed billetes de necesidad. The Republican government tolerated, then formally authorized, these issues as a stopgap.
Gari Mon#984-A is among the more elusive of the Marina Alta municipal issues, which as a group suffer significant attrition — most were redeemed, cancelled, or simply discarded once Nationalist forces took the region in 1938.