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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 description | Printed on reddish-brown card stock, the obverse bears a centrally applied circular letterpress stamp in dark purple ink. The stamp encloses the denomination legend "Vale por 1 Pta." surmounted by a stylized clenched fist symbol, with the issuing authority's full title running around the inner border of the circle. The composition is austere and utilitarian, consistent with improvised Republican-zone emergency issues of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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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) |
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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.