25 Céntimos Cantavieja

Cantavieja is a small hilltop town in the Maestrazgo region of Teruel, Aragón — an area that fell into anarchist-controlled territory early in the Spanish Civil War. The Comité Antifascista, like dozens of similar local bodies across Republican Aragón, issued its own fractional paper when metallic coin vanished from circulation almost overnight in the summer of 1936. Hoarding, export, and the simple disruption of normal commerce stripped small change from village economies faster than any central authority could respond.

Gari Mon#441-A is among the more obscure entries in the vast catalogue of Spanish Civil War local issues — Cantavieja's emission was tiny, and the town changed hands during the Nationalist advance into Aragón in 1938.