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25 Céntimos La Zaida

Issuer Consejo Municipal de La Zaida
Year 1937
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse lettering Consejo Municipal LA ZAIDA (Zaragoza) Este Consejo reconoce al portador, 25 Céntimos Emisión 1937.
(Translation: Municipal Council La Zaida (Zaragoza) This Council recognizes the bearer, 25 Centimos Issue 1937.)
Reverse description Unprinted plain white paper reverse, showing a faint blind impression of the obverse letterpress text and border through the thin paper stock, with a circular violet municipal stamp impression visible at centre from the obverse application.
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La Zaida is a small village in Zaragoza province, and this 25 céntimos note is one of hundreds of emergency local issues produced across Republican-held Aragon during the Civil War. The Nationalists' advance in mid-1936 severed normal banking supply chains almost immediately, leaving municipal councils to print whatever they could, wherever they could. La Tipografica, J. Sanz in nearby Caspe handled several of these commissions across the region.

Caspe itself was the seat of the Council of Aragon — the anarchist-influenced governing body established in 1936 — which gives the printing location a certain political resonance beyond mere geography.

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