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25 Céntimos Muniesa
| Issuer | Colectividad Libre de Muniesa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black ink, with a geometric chain-link border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms is positioned to the left, while the central text block carries the issuing authority name, the bearer clause, and the denomination value. The austere design is characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era collectivist emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad Libre de Muniesa Esta Colectividad reconoce a favor del portador la cantidad de 25 céntimos EMISIÓN 1937 (Translation: Free Collectivity of Muniesa This Collectivity recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 25 Centimos Issue 1937) |
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Muniesa is a small municipality in Teruel province, Aragon — a region where anarchist collectivization ran deep during the Civil War. The Colectividad Libre de Muniesa was among hundreds of village-level collectives that, cut off from the Republican banking system and starved of small change, printed their own scrip to keep internal trade functioning. These local emergency issues were never intended to circulate beyond the collective's own membership.
Survival rates for Aragonese village scrip are unpredictable. Many were destroyed when Nationalist forces took the region in 1938, or simply discarded once the collectives were dissolved.