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25 Céntimos La Puebla de Castro
| Issuer | Comisión Gestora de La Puebla de Castro |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprentas Socializadas, Graus |
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| Obverse lettering | La Comisión Gestora de LA PUEBLA DE CASTRO Pagará al portador 25 Céntimos Según acuerdo de 18 Noviembre de 1937 (Translation: The Management Committee of La Puebla de Castro Will pay the bearer 25 Centimos According to the agreement of November 18, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress text set against a dense stippled dot underprint that fills the entire field within a rectangular border. The issuer name is split across three lines in the upper portion, with the denomination numeral and legend rendered in a mixed roman and italic typeface in the lower section. The printer's imprint 'Imprentas Socializadas - GRAUS' appears below the border in smaller type. |
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La Puebla de Castro was a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like dozens of other Republican-held villages during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the national coin supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. The Comisión Gestora — the administrative body that replaced elected councils under the Republican wartime structure — had the authority to authorize local scrip, though the practical legitimacy of these emissions varied considerably from one town to the next.
Imprentas Socializadas in Graus was a collectivized print shop operating under anarcho-syndicalist control during this period, and it produced emergency notes for multiple Aragonese municipalities. That origin is part of what makes these local emissions historically distinctive — the printer itself was a product of the same revolutionary upheaval that created the currency shortage.