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1 Peseta Estiche de Cinca

Issuer Comité Local Antifascista de Estiche de Cinca
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Size 53 × 30 mm
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Obverse lettering Vale por 1 Pta.
COMITE LOCAL ANTIFASCISTA DE ESTICHE DE CINCA - HUESCA
(Translation: Voucher for 1 Peseta. Local Antifascist Committee of Estiche de Cinca - Huesca)
Reverse description The reverse presents the plain reddish-brown card stock entirely unprinted, with no inscriptions, overprints, or decorative elements, a characteristic common to hastily produced local emergency vouchers of the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War period.
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Estiche de Cinca is a village in the Monegros comarca of Aragon — a largely depopulated agricultural zone — and this note belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of hyperlocal emergency currency that swept Republican-held Spain during 1936 and 1937. The collapse of coin circulation after the military uprising forced hundreds of municipalities, trade unions, and local committees to print their own fractional scrip. The "Comité Local Antifascista" designation places this squarely in the early revolutionary phase, before the Republican government reasserted central authority and suppressed most local emissions in 1937.

The Gari catalogue documents over a thousand such Aragonese pieces; survival rates for village-level issues are unpredictable, often tied to whether a single hoard surfaced decades later.

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