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5 Céntimos La Puebla de Castro
| Issuer | Comisión Gestora de La Puebla de Castro |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on a plain paper ground, enclosed within a rectangular linear border. The central field carries the issuing authority name and denomination in bold capital lettering arranged in three horizontal registers, with no pictorial vignette. The printer's imprint 'Imprentas Socializadas - GRAUS' appears in smaller roman type below the framed area. |
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| Obverse lettering | La Comisión Gestora de LA PUEBLA DE CASTRO Pagará al portador 5 Céntimos Según acuerdo de 18 Noviembre de 1937 (Translation: The Management Committee of La Puebla de Castro Will pay the bearer 5 Centimos According to the agreement of November 18, 1937) |
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La Puebla de Castro is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and this note is a product of the fractional currency crisis that swept Republican-held Spain in 1937. When the war disrupted coin circulation and small change effectively vanished from commerce, hundreds of local councils, cooperatives, and comités issued their own emergency paper in denominations too low for any central authority to bother with. The Comisión Gestora — essentially the town's wartime administrative committee — had the legal and political backing to do so under Republican emergency provisions.
Imprentas Socializadas in Graus was a collectivized print operation, taken over by workers' committees early in the conflict. It produced emergency scrip for numerous small Aragonese municipalities during this period.