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25 Céntimos Laguarres
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Laguarres |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Uniface letterpress note printed in black on pale green coarse card stock, with all text set within a rectangular dotted border. The issuing authority appears in two lines at centre — 'Consejo Municipal' in regular weight above 'LAGUARRES' in bold capitals separated from the value clause by a row of dots. The denomination clause 'Vale por 25 céntimos' is set in bold letterpress text in the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing the raw texture of the coarse pale green card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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Laguarres is a village in the Ribagorza district of Huesca province, Aragon — a community small enough that its wartime emergency scrip represents one of the more obscure corners of the Spanish Civil War local currency phenomenon. When the Republican government's decree of 1936 authorized municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional notes to address the catastrophic coin shortage, hundreds of Spanish towns responded, but few as small as Laguarres. The thick card stock was a practical choice: proper banknote paper was simply unavailable to a village council operating under wartime conditions.
Gari Mon#809-B suggests a second variety exists, implying at least minor typographic or production differences between issues — a detail that matters considerably to collectors working this series.