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25 Céntimos Peñarroya de Tastavins
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Peñarroya de Tastavins |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in reddish-brown ink on plain paper, enclosed within a double geometric border composed of interlocking circular and foliate chain motifs. The issuer's name appears in large serif lettering across the upper portion, separated from the central denomination cartouche by a horizontal rule; the denomination '25 céntimos' is set within a dotted rectangular frame at centre, with a handwritten serial number to its left. The authorization text and the signature line for 'El Presidente' appear in smaller type across the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse bearing a hand-applied oval municipal ink stamp carrying the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic at its centre, surrounded by the legend of the Republican municipal authority. |
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Peñarroya de Tastavins is a small municipality in the Matarraña comarca of Aragon, and like hundreds of similarly tiny Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in a war economy. These local vales and billetes de necesidad were produced entirely outside any central banking structure, typically by the municipal council itself, with whatever printing resources were locally available.
The Gari Montllor census documents this as the sole denomination issued by this ayuntamiento, which makes surviving examples effectively unique to the issuer.