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25 Céntimos Grañén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Grañén |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GRAÑEN (Huesca) VEINTICINCO CENTIMOS 25 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Grañen (Huesca) Twenty-five Centimos 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse, otherwise blank save for an applied oval municipal rubber stamp bearing the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic at its centre, surrounded by the circular legend of the Municipal Council of Grañén. |
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Grañén is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and this 25 céntimos note is one of the thousands of locally issued emergency fractional pieces — papel moneda local — that flooded Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War after the coinage shortage of 1936–37 made small change effectively unusable. Municipal councils, trade unions, and cooperatives across the Republican zone were left to print their own solutions, with wildly varying quality and virtually no oversight.
The Garrido Moragas reference (Gari Mon#728-A) confirms its catalogued status, though surviving examples from minor Aragonese municipalities tend to appear infrequently given the small original print runs and the disruption caused by the Nationalist advance into Aragon in 1938.