Catalog
25 Céntimos Ontiñena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ontiñena |
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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 on a yellow ground patterned with a small repeating square motif. The text block occupies the full face, bordered by a rectangular frame composed of alternating squares and star ornaments at the corners. All legends are set in a plain serif typeface with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white ground with all text printed in black by letterpress. A dotted rectangular border frames the face, with small ornamental corner flourishes. The issuer's name appears in the upper right in mixed uppercase and title-case lettering, the denomination numeral "25" is set in a large bold typeface at centre right, and the year inscription occupies the lower left. |
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Ontiñena is a small agricultural municipality in the Monegros district of Huesca, Aragon — during the Civil War, the Aragonese front ran directly through this territory, and local councils across the region issued their own fractional paper money when the Republican government's small change simply stopped reaching rural areas. These emergency emissions were a practical response to coin hoarding and supply disruption, not an exercise in monetary ambition.
The Gari Monerris catalog remains the authoritative reference for these Spanish Civil War municipal issues, and the 1037-C designation places this firmly within the documented Ontiñena emission rather than one of the many uncatalogued or misattributed pieces from the same region.