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0.25 Pesetas Escatrón

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Escatrón
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Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse lettering Consejo Municipal ESCATRON Vale por 0`25 Pesetas De curso legal en esta localidad, para facilitar el cambio, según acuerdo de este Consejo La validez la acredita el sello del Municipio estampado al dorso
(Translation: Municipal Council Escatron Voucher for 0.25 Pesetas Legal tender in this locality, to facilitate the exchange, according to the agreement of this Council Validity is confirmed by the stamp of the Municipality stamped on the back)
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Reverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE DEFENSA - ESCATRON - (ZARAGOZA)
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Escatrón is a small mining town on the Ebro in Aragón, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional paper when coinage vanished from circulation entirely. These consejo municipal notes were a purely local fix — accepted in the village, worthless two towns over. The 0.25 pesetas denomination was among the most common fractions issued nationwide precisely because small change was the first thing to disappear.

The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented Aragonese local issues, though survival rates for these lightweight fractional pieces are uneven at best.