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5 Céntimos Almonacid de la Cuba

Issuer Colectividad de Almonacid de la Cuba
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Obverse description Letterpress-printed note in red ink with a geometric rectangular border framing the entire face. A five-pointed star enclosing the letter 'A' appears to the left, serving as a localised emblem of the issuing collectivity. The central text sets out the bearer obligation in a plain, utilitarian typeset with no pictorial vignette.
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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.

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