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50 Céntimos Alfara de Algimia
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Alfara de Algimia |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in red-orange letterpress. The issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" and "ALFARA DE ALGIMIA" appear in two lines of bold capital letters at the top, separated from the lower field by a short horizontal rule. A serial number in large numerals occupies the centre, with the denomination "50 céntimos" in bold type below. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse on plain cream card stock, with no text, vignette, or ornamental element of any kind. |
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Alfara de Algimia is a small municipality in the Valencia province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, its local council issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. These municipal issues — collectively known as "paper de la guerra" — were a bottom-up response to a real transactional crisis, not a monetary policy decision from above. The Generalitat had its own parallel emergency program, but it couldn't reach every village fast enough.
The thick card stock construction was deliberate: towns that lacked printing infrastructure often used whatever card was available, trading durability for improvisation. The Gari Montllor catalogue remains the definitive reference for Valencian municipal issues, and the "-B" suffix here indicates a distinct variety within the type.