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25 Céntimos Orba
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Orba (Municipality of Orba) |
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| Year | 1937-1938 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1038-A |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CÉNTIMOS Alcaldía de Orba Vale por Veinticinco Céntimos que abonará la Caja Municipal de este Ayuntamiento. Orba 17 de Marzo de 1937 El Alcalde, Ordenador de pagos (Translation: 25 Centimos Mayoralty of Orba Value for Twenty Five Cents that will be paid by the Municipal Fund of this City Council. Orba March 17, 1937. The Mayor, Authorizing Officer) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper printed entirely in red, centred with a horizontal oval cartouche formed by a dotted double-rule border terminating in symmetrical foliate rosette ornaments at each lateral extremity, with small diamond devices at the cardinal points of the frame. The denomination '25 céntimos' is set in bold serif type within the cartouche. Show-through of the obverse text is visible at the upper and lower margins. |
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Orba is a small village in the Alicante interior — population measured in hundreds, not thousands — which makes the decision to issue local emergency currency during the Civil War both unremarkable in national terms and quietly extraordinary at the village scale. The Republican government's inability to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation by 1937 forced municipalities down to the township level to fill the gap themselves, producing thousands of distinct local emissions across loyalist territory.
The Gari Mon catalogue places this among the rarer Alicante provincial issues. Production was almost certainly done on whatever press or duplicating equipment the ayuntamiento had to hand, which accounts for the printing variability collectors encounter across surviving examples.