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25 Céntimos Fonz
| Issuer | Fonz, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL 25 Cts. FONZ Agosto 1937. Estos billetes son de curso legal en este término municipal. Emisión aprobada en sesión celebrada el 31 de Julio de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council 25 Centimos Fonz August 1937. These banknotes are legal tender in this municipality. Issue approved in session held on July 31, 1937.) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL - FONZ (Huesca) (Translation: Municipal Council - Fonz (Huesca)) |
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Fonz is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of similar villages across Republican Spain, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the withdrawal of metallic coinage from circulation created an immediate problem for daily trade. These hyper-local emissions were technically authorized under a 1936 decree permitting municipalities to issue small-denomination paper, though in practice the oversight was minimal and the quality of production wildly uneven.
The Gari Montané catalog documents this 25 céntimos as reference 661-A, suggesting at least one variant exists within the Fonz emission.