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25 Céntimos Villar de los Navarros
| Issuer | Colectividad Libre de Villar de los Navarros |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black ink on plain paper, framed by a simple geometric border running the full perimeter. The municipal coat of arms appears to the left, with the denomination numeral and all textual legends arranged across the face in a straightforward typeset layout characteristic of Civil War-era Spanish emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a hand-applied violet rubber stamp with rounded-rectangle frame, reading 'Colectividad Libre / Villar de los Navarros', applied at an oblique angle as the sole authenticating device, consistent with the obverse text indicating the stamp serves as the bond's validation. |
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Villar de los Navarros is a small municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon — a region where anarchist collectivization ran deep during the Civil War. The Colectividad Libre issued these notes as internal scrip after the local economy was effectively decoupled from the Republican peseta, with goods and labor exchanged within the collective on its own terms. Hundreds of Aragonese villages did the same, but few left paper surviving in any quantity.
The rubber stamp authentication was the only security measure available to a rural collective with no access to printing infrastructure. Counterfeiting within the village would have been socially, not legally, punished.