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10 Céntimos Estiche de Cinca
| Issuer | Comité Local Antifascista de Estiche de Cinca |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with black letterpress text centred in two lines reading "Vale por 10 Cts." A large circular violet rubber stamp impression, bearing the legend of the issuing committee around its perimeter and enclosing a crude map or regional vignette in its centre, is applied over the face, partially overlapping the denomination text. The overall design is entirely typographic, with no printed border or decorative underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Vale por 10 Cts. COMITE LOCAL ANTIFASCISTA DE ESTICHE DE CINCA - HUESCA (Translation: Voucher for 10 Centimos Local Antifascist Committee of Estiche de Cinca - Huesca) |
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Estiche de Cinca is a village in Huesca province, Aragon — population in the hundreds during the 1930s. That a settlement this small issued its own emergency paper currency is less surprising than it sounds: the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain in 1936–37 forced hundreds of municipalities, factory committees, and local antifascist bodies to print their own scrip just to keep daily commerce moving. The Consejo de Aragón broadly tolerated this, though Madrid repeatedly tried to suppress local emissions it couldn't control.
Gari 624-A suggests this is among the scarcer documented emissions from the Huesca interior.