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25 Céntimos Urrea de Gaén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Urrea de Gaén (Province of Teruel) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Circular white cardboard disk with all text printed in black. A small upward-pointing arrow device appears at the top of the field, with a corresponding downward-pointing arrow at the bottom. The legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' is printed in bold across the upper portion, flanked above and below by double horizontal rules. The denomination '25 Cts.' is prominently displayed in large bold characters in the center of the field, with the legal tender declaration 'De curso legal en esta localidad' in smaller italic type immediately below. The issuing locality 'URREA DE GAEN (Teruel)' and the emission date 'EMISION 1937' appear in bold type in the lower portion of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal 25 Cts. De curso legal en esta localidad URREA DE GAEN (Teruel) EMISIÓN 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council 25 Centimos Legal tender in this locality Urrea de Gaén (Teruel) Issue 1937) |
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Urrea de Gaén is a small agricultural municipality in the Bajo Martín comarca of Teruel, and like dozens of similar towns across Republican-controlled Aragon in 1937, it issued emergency cardboard fractional currency after metallic coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in a province that had seen front lines shift repeatedly since the summer of 1936. The Consejo Municipal, the revolutionary administrative body that had replaced the pre-war ayuntamiento, authorized these pieces locally with no central oversight from Valencia.
Survival rates for Aragonese cardboard emergency issues are highly unpredictable. The material degrades easily, and many pieces from comparable municipalities are known from only a handful of examples.