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0.25 Peseta Foz-Calanda
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Foz-Calanda |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#670-A |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain paper, enclosed within a rectangular border composed of repeating dot-matrix ornamental blocks at the corners and along the edges. The issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE FOZ-CALANDA" appears in bold capitals across the upper portion, with the denomination "0'25 Peseta" in large type within a framed panel at centre. Below, a handwritten series letter and serial number line reads "Serie C -- Número", followed at the foot by two subsidiary inscriptions in smaller type: "Su validez la acredita el sello del dorso" at left and "Canjeable en Tesorería" at right. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet ink hand-stamp applied to the reverse, reading "AYUNTAMIENTO DE FOZ-CALANDA" with a central device, serving as the sole authentication mark for the note. |
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Foz-Calanda is a small municipality in the Bajo Aragón comarca of Teruel province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, it resorted to locally printed fractional notes during the Civil War when coin shortages became acute. The central government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation forced municipal councils — the Consell, Ajuntament, or Consejo depending on region — to become de facto issuers almost by necessity.
The control stamp is the only security measure here, which was entirely typical of these emergency emissions. Gari Montllor's cataloguing of the Aragonese series documents significant variation in stamp placement and ink color across surviving specimens.