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5 Céntimos Almonacid de la Cuba
| Issuer | Colectividad de Almonacid de la Cuba |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a hand-applied oval official stamp in violet ink reading 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / PRESIDENCIA / ALMONACID DE LA CUBA' with two small asterisks flanking the lower legend, accompanied by a handwritten authorising signature in violet ink below the stamp. The remainder of the surface is blank plain paper. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL PRESIDENCIA ALMONACID DE LA CUBA |
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Almonacid de la Cuba is a village in Zaragoza province, Aragon, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Like hundreds of other small Spanish municipalities, it issued its own fractional emergency notes during the Civil War after the Republican government's hoarding decree of 1936 effectively drained metallic coinage from circulation. These hyper-local emissions — often produced with rubber stamps, hand-numbering, and whatever paper was available — were legal within their issuing municipality only, and most were redeemed or simply discarded once the war ended.
Survivorship is largely accidental.