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0.10 Pesetas Aínsa
| Issuer | Comité Local Revolucionario de Aínsa |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on salmon-orange card stock, the obverse carries the issuer name COMITÉ LOCAL REVOLUCIONARIO and town name AINSA in bold capital lettering across the upper portion, with the large denomination numeral 0'10 at centre. The revolutionary slogan U.H.P. (Uníos Hermanos Proletarios) and the inscription VALOR INTERIOR appear below, while a vertical serial number is printed along the right margin, separated by a ruled border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed on the same salmon-orange card stock, bears a single oval rubber validation stamp in violet ink applied at centre, enclosing a small heraldic device; partial lettering around the stamp reads CONSEJO MUNICIPAL, serving as the authenticating cachet for this emergency issue. |
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Aínsa is a small Aragonese town in the Pyrenean foothills, and like dozens of similarly sized municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it resorted to printing its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage essentially disappeared from circulation after 1936. The metallic shortage was acute enough that even a ten-céntimo piece became hoarded or melted, forcing local revolutionary committees — bodies with no formal banking authority whatsoever — to fill the gap with cardboard.
The validation stamp is doing real work here: without it, these locally produced pieces had no mechanism of trust beyond civic pressure. The Gari Monetary catalog number places this squarely within the documented Aragonese municipal emissions, a field still not fully inventoried.