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25 Céntimos Escatrón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Escatrón |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher in green ink, enclosed within a simple linear rectangular border. The municipal coat of arms appears at upper centre, with the issuing authority and denomination text arranged in a formal typeset layout across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse, validated by a hand-applied circular violet municipal ink stamp at left centre, bearing the coat of arms of Escatrón and the inscription referencing Zaragoza province. |
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Escatrón is a small mining town on the Ebro in Aragon, and this 25 céntimos note is a product of the Spanish Civil War's acute small-change crisis. From 1936 onward, hoarding stripped copper and silver coins from circulation almost entirely, forcing municipal councils across Republican Spain — including the most obscure — to print their own emergency fractional paper. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure of any sophistication; the official stamp was the sole mechanism distinguishing a valid note from a forgery.
Survival rates for these hyper-local emissions are unpredictable. Many were redeemed and pulped; others simply vanished with the communities that issued them.