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10 Céntimos Ontiñena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ontiñena |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 110 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on a beige ground, the face of this municipal emergency note is enclosed within a perimeter border of alternating squares and star ornaments. The text, set in letterpress, fills the note in a structured layout presenting the payment obligation of the Municipal Council of Ontiñena. The date of issue, December 1, 1937, and the denomination of 10 céntimos appear within the central text block. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. An oval municipal stamp appears to the left, alongside the denomination and year set in letterpress. The overall layout is plain and utilitarian, consistent with the emergency character of this wartime local issue. |
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Ontiñena is a small agricultural municipality in Huesca province, Aragon — population well under a thousand even today. During the Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic shortage of fractional coin, partly because hoarding stripped copper and silver from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. Hundreds of Aragonese municipalities responded by issuing their own emergency paper, and Ontiñena was among them. These consejo municipal issues were technically illegal under the Republic's own monetary regulations, but the central government tolerated them as a practical necessity.
Survival rates for such hyper-local wartime issues are low. Many were redeemed and pulped before Nationalist forces arrived, or simply lost when the issuing bodies dissolved.