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25 Céntimos Paiporta
| Issuer | Comité Ejecutivo Popular, Paiporta |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité Ejecutivo Popular Delegación de Banca VALE por 25 céntimos Paiporta 9 Octubre 1936 (Translation: People's Executive Committee Banking Delegation Voucher for 25 Centimos Paiporta October 9, 1936) |
| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse bearing a large oval municipal validation stamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp reads "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PAIPORTA" around the outer border with star ornaments, and bears an inner legend "DELEGACIÓN ABASTOS" flanking a small heraldic castle vignette at the centre of the oval. |
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Paiporta is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and this 25 céntimos note is one of thousands of emergency fractional issues produced by local revolutionary committees across Republican Spain after the July 1936 coup fractured normal commerce. The Comité Ejecutivo Popular — a body that had effectively displaced the pre-war municipal government — issued these notes to plug the near-total disappearance of small metallic coinage, which was being hoarded almost immediately as the conflict escalated.
Turró's catalog of Valencia province emergency issues documents just how localized this problem became: villages of a few hundred people were printing their own money within weeks of the uprising.