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50 Céntimos La Fresneda
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Fresneda |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#676-C |
| Obverse description | Light green note with blue letterpress text and a geometric border frame enclosing the perimeter. A vignette of the local City Hall building is printed rotated 90 degrees, oriented toward the left margin. Denomination and issuing authority appear in the upper and lower registers respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text set against an underprint of repeating geometric designs, enclosed within a matching geometric border frame. The denomination and issuing authority inscriptions are arranged symmetrically within the central field. |
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La Fresneda is a small municipality in the Matarraña comarca of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency — paper selos or vales — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. Republican-zone municipalities had little choice: the central government could not supply small change fast enough, and barter was not viable. These local emissions were authorised under a broader Republican framework but produced entirely at the council's own initiative, often on whatever printing resources existed nearby.
The Gari Montserrat catalogue remains the primary reference for Aragonese municipal issues of this type, and the 676-C designation places this note within a documented but genuinely scarce local series.