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0.25 Pesetas Puértolas

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Puértolas
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Obverse description Plain cream paper ground with a dotted rectangular border framing the entire face. The issuer name "Consejo Municipal de PUERTOLAS" is printed in bold dark blue letterpress across the upper portion, underlined by a solid rule. Below, the denomination text "Vale por O'25 pesetas" is set in large bold letterpress characters, centred on the note.
Obverse lettering Consejo Municipal de PUERTOLAS VALE por 0`25 pesetas
(Translation: Municipal Council of Puértolas Voucher for 0.25 Pesetas)
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Puértolas is a tiny municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and its wartime scrip belongs to the vast ecosystem of local emergency money — moneda local de guerra — issued across Republican Spain during the Civil War when the central government's coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Hundreds of village councils, trade unions, and cooperatives issued their own fractional notes between 1936 and 1939, most in very small print runs intended purely for local transactions.

Gari Mon#1196-A is among the more obscure municipal emissions. The survival rate for these Pyrenean village issues is low — not through dramatic circumstance but simple attrition.