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5 Céntimos Graus
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Graus |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 75 × 50 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red on plain paper, the reverse carries a photographic-style woodcut vignette of the Plaza Mayor of Graus (Huesca, Aragon), showing the arcaded façades of the historic square in a high-contrast, coarsely rendered print. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de GRAUS' arches across the top in bold capital letters, while the denomination '5 CENTIMOS' appears in a panel at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de GRAUS 5 CENTIMOS (Translation: Municipal Council of Graus 5 Centimos) |
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Graus is a small town in the Ribagorza comarca of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage simply vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or lost to wartime disruption. These municipal issues, collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes de necesidad* literature, were produced locally with whatever printing resources existed: often a single-color press, sometimes a rubber stamp over plain stock.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly in the specialist Aragonese catalogue rather than the more widely held Catalan or Valencian series. Low-denomination municipal notes from small Aragonese towns were rarely issued in large quantities, and survival rates are poor — wartime paper, crude production, and the collapse of Republican administration in Aragon following Franco's 1938 offensive all contributed.