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25 Céntimos Alcubierre
| Issuer | Cooperativa de Alcubierre |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on pink paper, the face bears a braided interlace border running the full perimeter, its corner elements formed by interlocking oval knots. The issuer's name 'COOPERATIVA DE ALCUBIERRE' is set in two lines of large serif capitals across the upper field, above a horizontally ruled rectangular panel carrying the denomination '25 CENTIMOS' in bold letterpress type. |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA DE ALCUBIERRE 25 CENTIMOS (Translation: Cooperative of Alcubierre 25 Centimos) |
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Alcubierre is a small municipality in the Monegros desert region of Zaragoza province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War years of 1936–39, its local cooperative issued emergency fractional scrip when metallic coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight. These community-level emissions — often printed on whatever stock was at hand — filled a genuine transactional void at the village level and were redeemable only within the issuing locality.
The Gari Mon reference being incomplete signals this piece hasn't been formally catalogued with a type number, which is not unusual for the more obscure Aragonese municipals. Attribution and authentication depend heavily on provenance documentation.