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0.50 Pesetas Escatrón

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Escatrón
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Type Emergency banknote
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Reverse lettering ESCATRON (ZARAGOZA) CONSEJO MUNICIPAL
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Protection description Violet rectangular handstamp applied to the reverse reading ESCATRON (ZARAGOZA) / CONSEJO MUNICIPAL, serving as the authenticating municipal seal; accompanied by a manuscript ink signature of an authorised council official.
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Escatrón is a small mining municipality on the Ebro in Aragon, and like dozens of similarly sized Republican-held towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when the collapse of normal banking channels made coin effectively unavailable. These municipal notes — cartones, billets de necesidad — were produced by hundreds of Spanish localities between 1936 and 1939, each with its own improvised design, often printed on whatever stock was at hand.

The handstamp and manuscript signature were the only authentication mechanism. Gari Mon 607-B distinguishes this from at least one other Escatrón type, suggesting the council issued more than one variant during the conflict.