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25 Céntimos Gelsa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gelsa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on a light green underprint, the obverse bears a rectangular letterpress-printed border with ornamental corner flourishes enclosing the issuer legend at top and the large denomination numeral and text at centre. To the left, a vignette of the emblem of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon is accompanied by a rural scene of horses ploughing a field with a farmer, rendered in a simple illustrative style. All text and design elements are executed in red ink. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on a light green underprint, the reverse carries a central vignette of a traditional paddle-wheel river vessel moored on the Ebro, with a multi-arch stone bridge spanning the river in the background. The scene is enclosed within a rectangular ornamental border with decorative corner pieces, and the printer's imprint appears along the lower margin. The issuer name and denomination are set in bold lettering across the upper portion of the design. |
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Gelsa is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional emergency currency when the Republic's central supply of small coinage collapsed almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising. The C.A.M. in Barcelona printed enormous quantities of these municipally authorized notes for councils across Catalonia and Aragon throughout 1937, functioning essentially as a clearinghouse for local emergency paper.
Gelsa sat in a contested zone — the Aragon front ran close by, and the town changed hands during the Nationalist advance in 1938. Very few of these notes survived that disruption.