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0.50 Peseta Estopiñán
| Issuer | Municipality of Estopiñán |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-coloured ground bearing a large circular municipal seal applied in violet ink, with a serrated outer border. The stamp legend reads 'ESTOPIÑÁN (Huesca)' and includes date numerals, along with a small decorative device at centre; a handwritten signature appears at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Circular municipal seal in violet ink applied by hand to authenticate the note |
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Municipal emergency notes of this kind proliferated across Aragón and Catalonia during the early months of the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's failure to distribute small-denomination coinage left local economies effectively paralyzed. Estopiñán — a small town in the Ribagorza district of Huesca province — issued fractional paper alongside dozens of similarly sized municipalities, most of which had no printing infrastructure whatsoever.
The official stamp substituting for formal security printing is characteristic of the type: authority authenticated through bureaucratic impression rather than engraving. Many of these notes were redeemed locally and destroyed; survivors tend to come from outside circulation entirely.