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50 Céntimos Altea
| Issuer | Cooperativa C.N.T., Altea |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note in black on unprinted paper stock, with a dotted square border forming the perimeter frame. The issuer's name 'Cooperativa C.N.T.' appears in bold capital letters across the upper field, separated from the central denomination panel by a double rule; the large numeral '50' is set to the left with 'cèntimos' to its right in the central zone, and the place name 'ALTEA' is centered in the lower field, flanked by two bullet points, above the bottom border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Cooperativa C.N.T. 50 cèntimos ALTEA |
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Altea is a coastal town in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of municipalities across Republican Spain in 1937, it faced an acute shortage of small change after the outbreak of the Civil War — the hoarding and melting of coins effectively eliminated fractional currency from daily use. The CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), the anarcho-syndicalist union that held real administrative authority in many Valencian localities during this period, stepped in to fill the gap by issuing their own emergency scrip through local cooperatives.
This 50 céntimos piece from the Altea cooperative is one of the smaller-denomination vales de necesidad that circulated purely within the local economy, redeemable only through the issuing body. Such notes lost all value when the Nationalist advance reached the region in mid-1938.