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20 Céntimos Santoréns
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santorens |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in violet-blue ink on plain white paper, with the municipality name SANTORENS in bold capital letters across the upper portion. The face value VALE 20 cts. is centered between two pointing hand vignettes (manicules) flanking the text on either side. A handwritten serial number, prefixed by No, appears in the lower right area. |
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| Obverse lettering | SANTORENS VALE 20 cts. No [serial number] |
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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.