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25 Céntimos Selgua
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Selgua |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green ink, the note is framed by a geometric border of ruled lines and square corner ornaments. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centrally placed, dividing the two-line issuer inscription above and below. The remaining field carries the full legal tender text in letterpress, dated August 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL SELGUA / Agosto 1937 25 Cts. Estos billetes son de curso legal en este término municipal. Emisión aprobada en sesión celebrada el 14 de Agosto de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Selgua / August 1937 25 Centimos These banknotes are legal tender in this municipal term. Issue approved in session held on August 14, 1937.) |
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Selgua is a village in Huesca province, Aragon — barely a few hundred inhabitants even in the 1930s. Like dozens of similarly tiny Republican municipalities during the Civil War, the local council issued emergency fractional paper when small-change coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation after 1936. These hyper-local emissions were a practical response to a real transactional crisis, not an assertion of monetary independence by the council.
The Gari Montllor census documents hundreds of such Aragonese village notes, many surviving in tiny quantities. Selgua's emission is among the more obscure entries in that catalog.