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25 Céntimos Monforte
| Issuer | Colectividad Libre de Monforte de Moyuela |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed entirely in blue ink on cream paper, enclosed within a rectangular border composed of scrollwork and dot-dash ornamental rules at the corners and sides. The issuer name "COLECTIVIDAD LIBRE" arches across the upper portion in large bold lettering, with "MONFORTE" centred below flanked by small foliate ornaments. The denomination "25 CENTIMOS" is set in large bold type at centre, with the fractional value "0'25" repeated at all four corners; a small mandatory circulation and redeemability clause with the date "Mayo, 1937" runs along the lower margin in smaller roman type. |
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| Protection description | Hand-applied blue oval municipal stamp of the Alcaldía de Monforte de Moyuela on the reverse, serving as validation and authentication of the note. |
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Monforte de Moyuela is a small village in Aragon — population never much above a few hundred — and like dozens of similarly tiny communities, it issued its own paper scrip during the anarchist-led collectivization of 1936–37. The CNT-affiliated collectives that administered these villages often printed or hand-stamped emergency fractions when Republican-zone coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted. The "Colectividad Libre" designation marks this as a libertarian collectivist issue, not a municipal one — a meaningful distinction in the Aragonese context.
Gari's cataloguing of this material remains the authoritative reference for Aragonese local issues, and the Mon#935-A assignment suggests limited surviving documentation. Most of these village emissions were used hard and discarded when the collectives were forcibly dissolved by communist-aligned Republican forces in August 1937.