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25 Céntimos Albalatillo
| Issuer | Consejo de Defensa de Albalatillo |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card with all text in bold black letterpress within a thick single-line rectangular border. The serial number appears at the top in handwritten numerals above a dotted line, beneath which the denomination legend is printed in two lines of progressively larger type. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO DE DEFENSA — DE — ALBALATILLO (Huesca) (Translation: Defense Council of Albalatillo (Huesca)) |
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Albalatillo is a village in Huesca province, Aragon, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. Like dozens of similarly small Republican-held municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency small-change scrip — moneda local — to address the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation after 1936. The Consejo de Defensa designation marks this as a wartime administrative body rather than a conventional municipal council.
Survival rates for these hyper-local emissions are unpredictable. Print runs were tiny, quality control nonexistent, and most notes were redeemed, lost, or simply discarded when the war ended the issuing authority's existence.