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25 Céntimos Piles
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Piles |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal PILES 25 céntimos |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse, unprinted save for a circular municipal ink stamp applied by hand and two manuscript signatures executed in black ink, positioned centrally. |
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Piles is a small coastal municipality in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish villages during the Civil War, its local council (consejo municipal) was forced to produce its own emergency fractional currency after the Republic's coin supply effectively collapsed in 1936–37. Hoarding, melting, and the breakdown of supply chains had stripped small-denomination metal from circulation almost entirely. These hyper-local emissions — often produced by a village printer with no specialized security equipment — were legal only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
The Turró and Gari Mon references place this firmly within the documented Valencia province local issues, though survival rates for Piles notes are poor given the town's tiny population and the improvised production.