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25 Céntimos Santoréns
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santoréns |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency note printed in blue ink on pink paper, with the issuer name CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE SANTORENS and denomination rendered in a rubber-stamp style. Two pointing-hand manicule devices flank the locality name at centre, with the denomination legend VALE - 25 - Cs. and a handwritten serial number at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE SANTORENS (HUESCA) |
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Santoréns is a small municipality in the Pyrenean comarca of Sobrarbe, Aragon — during the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of similarly tiny Republican-controlled towns issued their own emergency fractional currency when the collapse of confidence in the peseta and a severe shortage of small coins left commerce at a standstill. The Consejo Municipal, acting under the broad emergency authorization extended to local Republican governments from 1936 onward, produced these céntimos notes as purely local scrip, theoretically redeemable but practically worthless beyond the village boundary.
Gari's cataloging of this issue as Mon#1329-A suggests a known variant exists — unusual for a locality this obscure.