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25 Céntimos Híjar
| Issuer | Colectividad Obrera U.G.T.-C.N.T. de Híjar |
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| Printer | Artes Gráficas C.N.T., Barcelona |
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| Obverse lettering | COLECTIVIDAD OBRERA - U.G.T. - C.N.T. - HIJAR 25 CENTIMOS (Translation: Worker Collectivity - U.G.T. - C.N.T. - Hijar 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Single-color brown note with a large central numeral '25' set within an elaborate symmetrical vignette of scrolling acanthus leaves, floral rosettes, and foliate ornaments. A ribbon cartouche below bears the issuer name 'HIJAR' in bold capitals, with denomination numerals '25 cts' repeated in each corner. The imprint 'ARTES GRAFICAS C.N.T. BARCELONA' appears in small text along the lower margin. |
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Híjar is a small town in Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its dominant labor collective — here a joint UGT-CNT body — issued its own emergency scrip when coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. The hoarding of metal was immediate and universal; paper filled the gap at the hyperlocal level, often with denominations too small for the state to bother producing.
The printer, Artes Gráficas CNT, was a Barcelona workshop collectivized by its own workers early in the war. That the anarcho-syndicalist CNT shared issuing authority here with the socialist UGT is itself notable — the two unions were frequently in ideological conflict, and joint issues at the municipal level reflect the pragmatic compromises that local economic collapse forced on competing factions.