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5 Céntimos Gelsa
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gelsa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 67 × 44 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central vignette of a horse-drawn plough working a field, attended by a farmer, with the emblem of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon placed to the left. The design is executed in brown letterpress within a plain rectangular frame, conveying the agrarian character of the issuing municipality. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GELSA 5 CÉNTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council of Gelsa 5 Centimos) |
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Gelsa is a village on the Ebro in Aragon, and this note was issued in 1937 when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small coinage — copper and nickel had been hoarded or melted, and the central government couldn't paper over the gap fast enough. Municipal councils across Catalonia and Aragon filled the void themselves, printing their own emergency fractional scrip under loose authorization from the Generalitat.
The printer, C.A.M. in Barcelona, handled a significant volume of these local issues, which is why notes from otherwise obscure municipalities survive at all — the production was centralized even when the authorization wasn't.