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5 Pesetas Velilla de Ebro
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Velilla de Ebro |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, the note is framed by a geometric border with the emblem of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon at left, set before two water mill wheels rendered as a central vignette. Letterpress text carries the full municipal authority inscription and date of issue, arranged within the framing. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue with a geometric border, the reverse carries a green panoramic vignette of the town as a background underprint. The denomination and issuing authority appear in letterpress text over the vignette. |
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Velilla de Ebro is a small Aragonese municipality on the Ebro river, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These consejo municipal emissions were authorized under a 1936 decree permitting local governments to print their own paper money, a measure born of necessity as the banking system fractured along front lines.
The Gari Montalvo census documents this emission as a single-note series, which suggests very limited printing. Small-town Aragonese issues from 1937 are among the least-documented of the war's local currencies.