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0.10 Pesetas Estopiñán
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Estopiñán |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with a geometric border framing the entire note. The Republican coat of arms of Spain is positioned in the upper left corner, with the full text of the municipal treasury declaration laid out in letterpress across the face. The layout is strictly typographic, with no pictorial vignette, the denomination stated in numerals and words within the body text. |
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| Reverse description | A landscape vignette in yellow-olive tones occupies the upper portion of the note, rendered in a fine engraved style and showing a panoramic view of the hilltop town of Estopiñán with its church tower and clustered stone buildings set against a lightly tinted sky. A solid dark rectangular band at the bottom carries the mandatory circulation legend in bold white letterpress. The printer's imprint appears in small text below the vignette, and a serial number is positioned in the upper right corner. |
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Estopiñán — a small municipality in the Ribagorza comarca of Huesca province — issued these fractional notes in 1937 as part of the broader Catalan and Aragonese local currency explosion triggered by the Republican government's chronic shortage of small change during the Civil War. Hundreds of municipal councils across loyalist territory were authorized, or simply compelled by necessity, to print their own emergency fracciones, and Litografia Lafont i Ceballes in Barcelona handled a significant number of these contracts simultaneously.
The Gari Monje census (Mon#626-A) distinguishes at least one variety for this denomination, suggesting limited but documented surviving examples. Estopiñán fell under Nationalist control in 1938, at which point any unspent local scrip became worthless overnight.