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10 Céntimos Almonacid de la Cuba
| Issuer | Almonacid de la Cuba, Municipality of |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad Almonacid de la Cuba Esta Colectividad reconoce a favor del portador la cantidad de 10 Céntimos (Translation: Collectivity Almonacid de la Cuba This Collectivity recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 10 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PRESIDENCIA ALMONACID DE LA CUBA |
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Almonacid de la Cuba is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed after 1936. Copper and silver vanished almost immediately — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable — leaving local councils scrambling to produce paper substitutes for everyday transactions.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains the primary reference for these Aragonese municipal emissions, many of which were produced in tiny quantities and survive in only a handful of known examples. Almonacid de la Cuba had a population of a few hundred; its notes circulated in a correspondingly tight geographic radius.