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30 Céntimos Alcorisa
| Issuer | Alcorisa, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 30 Centimos (0.30 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset in dark blue on plain paper, the face carries a rectangular border composed of small mosaic-style squares with corner ornaments, enclosing a central field divided by a horizontal rule. The issuer name 'Izquierda Republicana' and locality 'ALCORISA' appear in the upper half in bold letterpress, with two mirrored decorative square cartouches flanking the centre below the rule. The denomination legend 'Vale por 30 Céntimos' is set in large bold type across the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a single applied oval violet rubber control stamp, partially obscured by an adhered stamp fragment at centre. The oval seal reads around its perimeter 'FLORENCIO ARIO LASMATAS' and in the interior 'Trabajadores Generales' with a small floral ornament at centre. |
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Alcorisa is a small agricultural town in Teruel province, Aragon — precisely the kind of municipality that found itself issuing emergency paper during the summer of 1936 when the peseta supply collapsed at the local level following the Nationalist uprising. These town-issued fractional notes, known collectively as "papel moneda local," were a purely pragmatic response to the hoarding of coins; hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same thing within weeks of the outbreak of civil war.
The official stamp is the only security measure, which tells you everything about the intended circulation radius — essentially just the town itself, where the issuing authority was personally known.