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25 Céntimos Esplús
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Esplús |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink with a ruled perimeter frame enclosing the central text block. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears as a vignette to the left, balanced on the right by a vignette of an ear of wheat. All inscriptions are set in red typeface throughout. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in red ink, with the face value of 25 céntimos set within a central circular frame. To the right, a vignette of a farmer mowing with a sickle is accompanied by the local municipal shield. Inscriptions are printed in red typeface consistent with the obverse. |
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Esplús is a village in the Huesca province of Aragon — during the Civil War, the Republican-controlled municipalities of Aragon issued their own fractional paper currency because the central government in Valencia could not supply sufficient small change to keep local commerce moving. These emergency municipal issues, known as "papel moneda local," flooded out of hundreds of small towns between 1936 and 1938, most in tiny print runs that were only ever used within the issuing municipality itself.
The Tipografia C.A.M. in Barcelona produced notes for dozens of Aragonese councils simultaneously, which kept costs manageable but makes printer attribution less meaningful than it might seem — the political and economic story is entirely local.