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25 Céntimos Estiche de Cinca
| Issuer | Comité Local Antifascista de Estiche de Cinca |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-coloured thick card stock with a two-line letterpress inscription in black at centre reading 'Vale por 25 Cts.', entirely unornamented save for a circular violet ink stamp of the Comité Local Antifascista de Estiche de Cinca applied to the left, partially overlapping the typeset text. The austere, utilitarian layout is wholly characteristic of hastily produced Spanish Civil War local emergency vouchers from the Aragón region. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, consisting of the same plain light-coloured thick card stock as the obverse, bearing no inscriptions, vignettes, or markings of any kind. |
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Estiche de Cinca is a small municipality in the Cinca Medio comarca of Aragon, and like hundreds of similarly tiny Republican-held villages during the Spanish Civil War, its local antifascist committee issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1936–37 to address the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation. Hoarding and metal requisitions had stripped the economy of anything below a peseta. These hyper-local vales — often printed on whatever card stock was at hand — were legal only within the issuing township and backed by nothing more than local political authority.
The Gari catalogue documents two varieties for this denomination; this is the B type.