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20 Céntimos Santoréns

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Santorens
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Type Emergency banknote
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Reverse description Plain white paper reverse bearing a single large oval official stamp applied in violet-blue ink, enclosing the municipal coat of arms — a quartered shield surmounted by a mural crown — surrounded by the circular legend CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE SANTORENS (HUESCA).
Reverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE SANTORENS (HUESCA)
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Santorens is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon — one of hundreds of tiny Spanish localities that issued emergency fractional paper during the Civil War after Republican authorities authorized local councils to print their own low-denomination scrip in 1936 and 1937. The near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation, hoarded almost immediately after the conflict began, left communities scrambling for anything that could function as small change.

Notes from councils this obscure survive in very small numbers, largely because production runs were modest and the scrip was redeemed or discarded once normal supply channels resumed — or simply abandoned when the war's outcome made the question moot.

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