25 Céntimos Alcañiz

Alcañiz, a small town in Teruel province, sat in contested territory for much of the Spanish Civil War — the front lines shifted through Aragon repeatedly between 1936 and 1938, and the town itself changed hands. Municipal emergency currency like this 25 céntimos piece was a direct consequence of the Republic's inability to maintain adequate coin circulation in provincial areas, where Republican authorities hoarded metal for the war effort and small change simply vanished from commerce.

The Gari Mon reference places this within a well-documented but genuinely extensive body of Aragonese local emergency issues. Alcañiz produced several denominations; survival rates vary considerably by value, with the lower céntimos issues often surviving in worse condition due to heavier day-to-day use in markets and transit.