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25 Céntimos Mosqueruela
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mosqueruela |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in black letterpress on plain paper stock, the obverse is dominated by a large bold numeral '25' occupying the left portion of the field. To the right, the issuing authority's name is set in two lines separated by a horizontal rule, surmounted by a small heraldic vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic. The denomination 'céntimos' appears in bold type at lower right, underscored by a double rule. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, on plain paper, carries a manuscript signature in ink across the upper portion, underscored by a flourished pen stroke. A circular official rubber stamp impression in violet ink is applied to the lower centre, bearing the legend of the Consejo Municipal de Mosqueruela. |
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Mosqueruela is a small hilltop municipality in the Gúdar-Javalambre highlands of Teruel, Aragon — remote enough that during the Spanish Civil War, the breakdown of the national monetary system hit hard and fast. Local councils across Republican-held territory were authorized, informally at first and then more systematically, to issue their own emergency paper to keep commerce moving when coinage vanished from circulation entirely, hoarded or melted down. These municipal emissions, known broadly as "guerra civil local issues," were printed or lithographed under improvised conditions, often by whoever had access to a press.
The Gari Montalvo census remains the primary reference for Aragonese municipal issues, and the 977-A designation suggests this is among the documented variants rather than an unrecorded type — though survival rates for Teruel province issues are generally low given the intensity of the 1937–38 fighting in the region.