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2.50 Pesetas Urrea de Gaén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Urrea de Gaén |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de Urrea de Gaen (TERUEL) Este Consejo reconoce a favor del portador la cantidad de PESETAS 2`50 Su validez la acredita el sello del Consejo estampado al dorso (Translation: Municipal Council of Urrea de Gaén (Teruel) This Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Pesetas 2.50 Its validity is confirmed by the seal of the Council, stamped on the back) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse bearing a single circular violet handstamp applied off-centre to the left, serving as the sole authenticating device of the Municipal Council in accordance with the undertaking stated on the obverse. |
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Urrea de Gaén is a small municipality in the province of Teruel, Aragón, and like hundreds of similarly sized Spanish towns it was forced to produce its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. The Consejo Municipal issues from this region are among the more poorly documented in the Gari catalogue — survival rates are low, and authenticated examples with the handstamp intact are genuinely uncommon.
The handstamp was the issuing authority's primary validation mechanism, applied locally after printing. Its absence or fading is the most common defect encountered in the series.