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25 Céntimos Santalecina
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Santalecina |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in greenish blue ink on a yellowish green background, the note carries a full letterpress text block within a geometric border frame. The entire face is given over to the authorising resolution text, with no pictorial vignette, set against a patterned letterpress underprint. The composition is typical of wartime Spanish municipal emergency issues produced under austere printing conditions. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in greenish blue ink on a yellowish green background, the reverse bears a central motif of ears of wheat flanking a five-pointed star, enclosed within a geometric border frame with linear ornamental designs. The denomination and mandatory circulation legend are set in letterpress text around the central device. The overall layout is consistent with rudimentary municipal wartime printing typical of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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Santalecina is a village in the Huesca province of Aragon — a municipality so small that its wartime emergency scrip exists in quantities that can almost be counted individually. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage; the central government could not supply it fast enough, so thousands of municipal councils, cooperatives, and local committees printed their own paper substitutes. Santalecina was one of the smallest issuers.
Gari Mon catalogues this as #1324-A, suggesting at least one variant exists within the series.