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25 Céntimos Utrillas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Utrillas |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black ink, with a geometric rectangular border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Utrillas is placed in the upper left corner, beside the issuing authority's name and place designation in bold capital lettering. The central text body states the bearer obligation and denomination in a plain, utilitarian layout consistent with Civil War-era Spanish emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de UTRILLAS (TERUEL) Este Consejo reconoce a favor del portador la cantidad de 25 Céntimos EMISIÓN 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Utrillas (Teruel) This Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 25 Centimos Issue 1937) |
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Utrillas is a small mining town in the Teruel province of Aragon — an area that saw intense fighting during the Spanish Civil War. Like hundreds of other Republican municipalities in 1937, the Consejo Municipal issued its own fractional emergency currency when coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted down amid the chaos of war. These local billetes filled the gap left by the Nationalist blockade of coin supply to Republican-held territories.
Teruel province changed hands violently during the winter of 1937–38, and most locally issued scrip from the region was either destroyed in the fighting or rendered worthless almost immediately after issue. Surviving examples from Utrillas are correspondingly scarce.