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5 Pesetas Osso de Cinca
| Issuer | Consejo Local de Osso de Cinca |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper note printed entirely in black letterpress with no vignette or decorative elements. The issuing authority is inscribed in two lines at the top — "Consejo Local" in large spaced sans-serif capitals, followed by "Osso de Cinca" in a smaller roman typeface centred below. The denomination "5 ptas" is set in a bold gothic typeface in the lower half of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse left entirely blank, printed on unadorned buff paper with no text, vignette, or security device of any kind, consistent with the rudimentary production standards typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Osso de Cinca is a tiny municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of similarly small Republican-controlled towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. These locally-issued notes — collectively called "billetes locales" or simply "guerra civil locales" — were produced by municipal councils, cooperatives, and trade unions across the Republican zone, often on whatever paper and printing equipment was locally available.
The Gari catalogue remains the principal reference for Aragonese emergency issues, and the D suffix on this listing typically denotes a specific design variant within the series for this locality.