Catalog
2 Pesetas Ontiñena
| Issuer | Ontiñena, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain orange-buff paper stock with letterpress text in dark ink arranged in two lines across the centre of the note. The upper line carries the denomination legend in smaller capitals, with the value and unit abbreviation set in a larger typeface below. No vignette, border, or underprint is present. |
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| Reverse description | Plain orange-buff paper bearing a large oval municipal validation stamp applied in violet ink, partially visible and slightly off-centre to the left. The stamp reads 'CONSEJO' across the upper arc and 'ONTIÑENA' along the lower arc, with an abbreviated authority mark or initials in the centre field. |
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Ontiñena is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War period of 1936–1939 when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed entirely. These hyper-local municipal issues — often handwritten or crudely typeset, stamped with a local seal, and backed by nothing more than communal trust — are among the most fragile survivors of that conflict. Many were printed in tiny quantities, used briefly, and then simply discarded or lost when the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.
The Gari Montaner reference being incomplete signals this is either unverified or only partially documented — not uncommon for the smaller Aragonese emissions, which remain incompletely catalogued.