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10 Céntimos Peñalba
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Peñalba |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1097-A |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular violet municipality seal applied by hand to the reverse, overlaid with a manuscript authorisation signature, as described in the obverse validity clause. |
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Peñalba is a small municipality in Huesca, Aragon — one of hundreds of Spanish villages that issued their own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1937 effectively legitimized local money production to address the chronic shortage of small coin. These hyper-local emissions, collectively called "billetes de necesidad," were produced with whatever materials were at hand, which accounts for the card stock construction here.
Gari Mon catalogues this as the only denomination attributed to the Consejo Municipal de Peñalba. The official stamp is the primary — arguably the only — authentication mechanism, a telling detail about how thin the institutional infrastructure was in these remote Aragonese communities.