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| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Robres |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note printed in black letterpress, with the issuer name 'Consejo Municipal' set in bold type at the top, followed by 'ROBRES' in large display lettering underlined by a double rule. A faint blue oval municipal stamp impression is visible in the lower centre field. The denomination inscription 'VALE por 25 cts.' occupies the lower portion in bold type. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Robres is a small village in the province of Huesca, Aragon — population in the hundreds — and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional paper when coin disappeared from circulation entirely. The Republican government's 1936–37 emergency decree permitted local bodies to issue their own *moneda local*, producing one of the most fragmented and locally specific paper money systems in modern European history. Collector survival rates vary enormously; notes from the smallest towns often exist in single-digit quantities.