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5 Céntimos Candasnos
| Issuer | Candasnos, Municipality of |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#432-A |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue-black ink on plain paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The upper portion carries the anarcho-syndicalist affiliate designations 'C. N. T.' and 'A. I. T.' at left and right respectively, followed by the bold legend 'Colectividad Libre' and 'CANDASNOS' centred below. A double horizontal rule divides the face, with the denomination '5 cts.' set in large numerals in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | C. N. T. A. I. T. Colectividad Libre CANDASNOS 5 cts. (Translation: Free Collectivity Candasnos 5 Centimos) |
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Candasnos is a small municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally produced paper fractional currency during the Civil War after coin hoarding and wartime disruption destroyed normal small-change circulation. These village-level emissions — sometimes called "billetes locales" — were typically authorised by the local wartime committee and printed or even handwritten in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper stock was available.
The Gari Monje catalogue reference places this firmly within that documented regional typology. Survival rates for these hyper-local Aragonese issues are unpredictable — some towns produced hundreds, others fewer than fifty pieces.