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50 Céntimos Urrea de Gaén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Urrea de Gaén |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de URREA DE GAEN (TERUEL) EMISIÓN 1937 Certificado de 50 céntimos Declarado de curso legal en esta localidad, para facilitar el cambio, según acuerdo de este Consejo. No es válido sin el sello al dorso. (Translation: Municipal Council of Urrea de Gaén (Teruel) Issue 1937 50 Centimos certificate Declared legal tender in this locality, to facilitate the change, according to the agreement of this Council. Not valid without the stamp on the back.) |
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| Protection description | Circular violet hand-applied municipal council stamp on the reverse, declared mandatory for the note's validity. |
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Urrea de Gaén is a small Aragonese municipality that, like hundreds of other Republican-held towns during the Civil War, issued its own fractional paper currency after the collapse of metallic coin circulation in 1936–37. The hoarding of silver and copper left local economies functionally paralyzed, and municipal councils — many operating under anarcho-syndicalist influence — printed or rubber-stamped whatever they could to keep commerce moving. These emergency emissions were never formally sanctioned by the Republican treasury and had no validity outside the issuing locality.
The official stamp is the only security measure, which was common for Aragonese village issues of this period. The Garicano-Monoya reference confirms this as a documented emission, though surviving examples remain scarce given the destruction of 1938 when Nationalist forces retook the Ebro region.