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| Issuer | Ontiñena, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground with typeset red letterpress text centred on the face. The denomination inscription is arranged in two lines, with the voucher legend above and the value in large characters below. The note has a perforated border on all four sides. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR 0`05 ptas. (Translation: Voucher for 0.05 Pesetas) |
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Ontiñena is a small municipality in Huesca province, Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally produced fractional notes during the Civil War after metallic coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. These municipal emergency issues — often printed on whatever stock was available, stamped or signed by a local official to confer legitimacy — were purely stopgap instruments, rarely intended to travel beyond the village market.
The Gari Morera reference remains unassigned, which typically indicates the note was catalogued from limited surviving specimens or dealer records rather than a formal institutional collection.