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50 Céntimos Ador

Issuer Consejería de Abastecimientos de Ador
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Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Typographically printed emergency voucher on plain salmon-pink paper stock, entirely devoid of vignette, guilloche, or decorative underprint. The issuing authority inscription is set in the upper portion, with the municipality name rendered in spaced capital letters at centre, and the denomination statement in large bold letterpress type occupying the lower half of the note.
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Reverse description Reverse left entirely unprinted, presenting the plain salmon-pink paper stock without text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind.
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Ador is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and like dozens of similarly sized Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War when coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely. The Consejería de Abastecimientos — essentially a local supply committee — had no formal banking apparatus behind it. These hyper-local issues were printed on whatever was available, often by hand or on rudimentary equipment, and their authority extended no further than the village itself.

Survival is largely a matter of accident. Most were redeemed, lost, or discarded once normal currency returned.

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