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2 Pesetas Ontiñena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ontiñena |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper with a simple dotted-line rectangular border in brown, accented by small ornamental corner pieces. The issuing authority name appears in the upper right in two lines, with the large numeral '2' and the word 'pesetas' to the right centre, and 'Año 1937' in bold brown letterpress at the lower left. A violet oval official municipal stamp is applied to the left half of the note. |
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| Protection description | Violet oval municipal stamp of Ontiñena (Huesca) applied to the reverse as a validation mark. |
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Ontiñena is a small agricultural municipality in the Monegros district of Huesca, Aragon — deep in territory that was contested and then held by Republican forces during the early phase of the Civil War. Like hundreds of other Aragonese towns, the local council issued its own fractional currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coinage from circulation, hoarded or melted almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising.
The Gari Mon reference places this within a well-documented corpus of Aragonese municipal emergency issues, though survivorship among Ontiñena notes is limited — small-town issues were printed in low quantities and saw hard use before the Republican monetary consolidation effort rendered them void.