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25 Céntimos Valdeltormo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valdeltormo |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing an oval blue ink municipal stamp reading "Consejo Municipal" around the perimeter, applied as the validating seal required by the obverse text. Two handwritten signatures cross the centre of the note, and a handwritten inscription in ink reading "MUERAN LOS DE LA FAI CNT" appears across the upper portion, reflecting wartime political graffiti added in circulation. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Valdeltormo is a village in the Bajo Aragón-Caspe comarca with a population that barely crested a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like dozens of similarly sized Republican municipalities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the coinage shortage became acute enough to paralyze small transactions entirely. The Consejo Municipal — the locally-organized governing body operating under Republican administration — had no printing infrastructure of any sophistication, which is exactly what the physical evidence reflects.
The official stamp substitutes for any formal security printing. It was the closest thing available to authentication.