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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Puebla de Farnals |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#, TurróPV#1180 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Puebla de Farnals VALE por 50 cts. TIP. M. ZAMIT - MELIANA (Translation: Municipal Council Puebla de Farnals Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted stock bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal validation stamp in blue-violet ink at centre, enclosing a small shield motif and the circular legend of the issuing council; the remainder of the surface is blank. |
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Puebla de Farnals is a small coastal municipality north of Valencia, and like hundreds of Republican-held towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small change that followed the hoarding of metal coinage. These municipally-issued pieces — vales, billetes de necesidad — were strictly local instruments, theoretically redeemable only within the issuing commune and of no value elsewhere.
Printed by Tip. M. Zamit in nearby Meliana, a firm that handled similar emergency work for several surrounding Valencia-region councils that year.