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25 Céntimos Moneva
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Moneva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Indústries Gràfiques Seix i Barral, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on pale grey paper, the face carries an ornate rectangular border composed of alternating hatched segments and dot motifs in a typographic guilloche style. The issuing authority appears in bold capitals across the top, with the emission date in a smaller serif face beneath; the denomination is rendered in a flowing italic script at centre, followed by the redeemability clause in roman type. A notice regarding validation by reverse stamp is set in spaced capitals along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 CÉNTIMOS Serie C N.º [serial number] I. G. SEIX Y BARRAL, E. C. |
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Moneva is a village in Aragon with a population that barely reached three hundred in the 1930s. That a municipal council of this size issued its own fractional currency in 1937 speaks directly to the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain during the Civil War — silver and copper had vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and thousands of local authorities filled the gap with their own paper.
Seix i Barral, better known as a literary publisher, took on emergency currency printing work during this period. The official stamp served as the primary authentication measure — without it, notes were considered unissued.